AMD Radeon 8060S vs Nvidia N1X (48SM)
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AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
Nvidia N1X (48SM)
GB20B
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months newer Nvidia N1X (48SM) that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
- Performs significantly better (up to 3.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Achieves 32x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 2K)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1X (48SM)
- 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (31.2 vs 14.8 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Has 2.4x more shading units (6144 vs 2560)
- Features 192 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 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 124 104 70 37 |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 195 137 95 50 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 108 95 69 40 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 59 46 20 |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 97 90 60 37 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 80 65 43 25 |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 75 65 39 17 |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 132 116 79 37 |
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| 1080p High | 113 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 90 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 63 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 34 | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10038 | - |
| Solar Bay | 47180 | - |
| Port Royal | 5546 | - |
| Fire Strike | 26807 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19262 | - |
| Night Raid | 101008 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 232.1 img/sec | - |
| Face Detection | 122.5 img/sec | - |
| Horizon Detection | 2.92 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Edge Detection | 4.07 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.49 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Stereo Matching | 396.3 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Particle Physics | 13016.5 FPS | - |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1171 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 156 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 9032 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
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 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14027 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27198 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 40613 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 92878 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4158 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6473 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7431 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 41825 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 190221 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and Nvidia N1X (48SM)General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | June 1, 2026 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Blackwell (N1x) |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | GB20B |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop | - Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core) |
| Successor | - Radeon 8065S | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above | - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (20-Core) 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 |
- Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (20-Core) |
Laptop GPU ranking (25th and 38th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 1665 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 2535 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 6144 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 192 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 48 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 192 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 48 |
| 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 | 122 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 464 GTexel/s | 487 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 55 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 173.6 mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | No |
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 12.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | - |
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