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Radeon 8060S vs Radeon 8040S

Radeon 8060S
VS
Radeon 8040S
AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the Radeon 8040S that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 8040S over Radeon 8060S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 5.7 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 63 vs 28 FPS
  • Achieves 2.6x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 35K)
  • Has 2.5x more shading units (2560 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 8060S
vs
Radeon 8040S

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
135
79
62
40
76
40
31
17
The Witcher 3
124
104
70
37
53
44
26
14
Counter-Strike 2
195
137
95
50
84
60
39
15
Far Cry 6
108
95
69
40
61
49
35
16
Hogwarts Legacy
74
59
46
20
33
26
20
10
CoD: Modern Warfare III
97
90
60
37
49
41
31
15
Ghost of Tsushima
80
65
43
25
33
25
18
10
Cyberpunk 2077
75
65
39
17
32
29
17
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
132
116
79
37
65
55
32
17
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 54
1080p Ultra 90 41
1440p Ultra 63 28
4K Ultra 34 13
Margin of Error Low High

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
Radeon 8060S +119%
9837
Radeon 8040S
4502
Time Spy 10038 -
Solar Bay 47180 -
Port Royal 5546 -
Fire Strike 26807 -
Wild Life Extreme 19262 -
Night Raid 101008 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8060S +160%
93515
Radeon 8040S
35976
Background Blur 232.1 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Face Detection 122.5 img/sec 43.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.92 Gpixels/sec 1.12 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.07 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.49 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 0.5 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.3 Gpixels/sec 163 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13016.5 FPS 5820.4 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
Radeon 8060S +71%
18059
Radeon 8040S
10578
G2D Mark 1171 1052
DirectX 11 156 FPS 80 FPS
DirectX 12 84 FPS 47 FPS
GPU Compute 9032 Ops/s 5138 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1386 & 6 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 8060S +262%
1363.24
Radeon 8040S
376.14
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 129 & 1 samples
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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 -
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 -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and Radeon 8040S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Strix Halo Strix Halo
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 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		 - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480
- AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380
Laptop GPU ranking (25th and 77th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 2560 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 16
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 40 16
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 186 GPixel/s 90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 179 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8060S +160%
14.8 TFLOPS
Radeon 8040S
5.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 55 W 55 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 308 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

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

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11 (91.7%)
1 (8.3%)
Total votes: 12

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