AMD Radeon 8060S vs GeForce RTX 4060

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 over Radeon 8060S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Shows 10% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 69 vs 63 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Features 96 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
135
79
62
40
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3
124
104
70
37
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2
195
137
95
50
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6
108
95
69
40
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy
74
59
46
20
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
97
90
60
37
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima
80
65
43
25
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077
75
65
39
17
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
132
116
79
37
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 116
1080p Ultra 90 96
1440p Ultra 63 69
4K Ultra 34 40
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 4060 +9%
10683
Time Spy 10038 10615
Solar Bay 47180 49340
Port Royal 5546 6054
Fire Strike 26807 28540
Wild Life Extreme 19262 20610
Night Raid 101008 121368
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
93515
RTX 4060 +14%
106633
Background Blur 232.1 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 122.5 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.92 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.07 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.49 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.3 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13016.5 FPS 14935.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
18059
RTX 4060 +8%
19485
G2D Mark 1171 1036
DirectX 11 156 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 84 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 9032 Ops/s 9150 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1386 & 28684 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1363.24
RTX 4060 +130%
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 129 & 2092 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 8060S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
22565
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
30098
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
18100
14234
Image Classification (SP) 11176 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 14027 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27198 23289
Face Detection (HP) 40613 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 92878 78361
Text Classification (SP) 4158 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 6473 3491
Object Detection (SP) 7431 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 41825 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 190221 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and GeForce RTX 4060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) - $299
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Strix Halo AD107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 392
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395
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Laptop GPU ranking (#25th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#54th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2460 MHz
Shading Units 2560 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 24
Tensor Cores No 96
Ray-tracing Cores 40 24
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 186 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
14.8 TFLOPS
RTX 4060 +2%
15.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 55 W 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count - 18 billion
Transistor Density - 113.21 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 8 GB
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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