AMD Radeon 8060S vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
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AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 3 months newer GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 26 pipelines and 3328 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
- Performs better (up to 20%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 24% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 78 vs 63 FPS
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Achieves 25% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (116K vs 93K)
- Has 30% more shading units (3328 vs 2560)
- Features 104 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 135 79 62 40 |
137 85 77 55 |
| The Witcher 3 | 124 104 70 37 |
153 127 93 51 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 195 137 95 50 |
228 173 120 67 |
| Far Cry 6 | 108 95 69 40 |
116 106 85 50 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 59 46 20 |
87 73 53 31 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 97 90 60 37 |
108 100 72 48 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 80 65 43 25 |
80 67 52 28 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 75 65 39 17 |
95 82 49 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 132 116 79 37 |
144 130 97 53 |
| 1080p High | 113 | 128 |
| 1080p Ultra | 90 | 105 |
| 1440p Ultra | 63 | 78 |
| 4K Ultra | 34 | 45 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10038 | 12018 |
| Solar Bay | 47180 | 53003 |
| Port Royal | 5546 | 7458 |
| Fire Strike | 26807 | 31583 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19262 | 21605 |
| Night Raid | 101008 | 114257 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 232.1 img/sec | 190.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 122.5 img/sec | 115.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.92 Gpixels/sec | 4.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.07 Gpixels/sec | 5.28 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.49 Gpixels/sec | 7.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | 1.32 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 396.3 Gpixels/sec | 523.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13016.5 FPS | 16169.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1171 | 840 |
| DirectX 11 | 156 FPS | 162 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | 79 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9032 Ops/s | 6144 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8060S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 132783 |
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | Steel Nomad Light | 13919 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 11176 | 7525 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14027 | 23623 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27198 | 19973 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 40613 | 41164 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 92878 | 77589 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4158 | 2880 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6473 | 5811 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7431 | 9966 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 41825 | 37206 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 190221 | 136961 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and GeForce RTX 5060 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | April 14, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | GB206 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX 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 and 20th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 952-1455 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 1455-2497 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 3328 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 104 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 26 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 104 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 26 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 186 GPixel/s | 70-120 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 464 GTexel/s | 151-260 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 55 W | 45-115 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 181 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 21.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 120.99 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 89°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | - | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 24000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 12.0 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 2.1b |
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