AMD Radeon 8060S vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 3 years and 1 month older Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) that utilizes 32 pipelines and 256 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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) over Radeon 8060S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 20.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 18.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 12.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 63 vs 5 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 40 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 10.9x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 8K)
  • Has 10x more shading units (2560 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
135
79
62
40
14
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
124
104
70
37
-
Counter-Strike 2
195
137
95
50
13
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
108
95
69
40
-
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
74
59
46
20
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
97
90
60
37
-
Ghost of Tsushima
80
65
43
25
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
75
65
39
17
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
132
116
79
37
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Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 -
1080p Ultra 90 -
1440p Ultra 63 -
4K Ultra 34 -
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
Time Spy 10038 670
Solar Bay 47180 -
Port Royal 5546 -
Fire Strike 26807 2365
Wild Life Extreme 19262 1619
Night Raid 101008 9688
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 232.1 img/sec 18.6 img/sec
Face Detection 122.5 img/sec 12.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.92 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.07 Gpixels/sec 0.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.49 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.3 Gpixels/sec 20.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13016.5 FPS 1203.8 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 1170 -
DirectX 11 157 FPS -
DirectX 12 84 FPS -
GPU Compute 9041 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 1290 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 113 samples

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 11176 765
Image Segmentation (HP) 14027 1214
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27198 981
Face Detection (HP) 40613 1893
Pose Estimation (Q) 92878 3752
Text Classification (SP) 4158 847
Machine Translation (HP) 6473 1028
Object Detection (SP) 7431 866
Depth Estimation (Q) 41825 2410
Style Transfer (SP) 190221 11417
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 4, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Generation 12.2
GPU Codename Strix Halo Alder Lake GT1
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop - Radeon RX Vega 7
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above - Intel Core i5 11500H 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
- Intel Core 3 N355
- Intel Core i7 12650HX
- Intel Core i9 14900HX
- Intel Core i3 N300
- Intel Processor N200
- Intel Core i3 N305
- Intel Core i9 13900HX
- Intel Core i7 11850H
- and 4 more
Laptop GPU ranking (25th and 132nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1450-1650 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 40 No
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 186 GPixel/s 12-13 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 23-26 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8060S +1750%
14.8 TFLOPS
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
TGP 55 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 nm
Die Size 308 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

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

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