AMD Radeon 8065S vs Adreno X2-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8065S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 11 months older Adreno X2-85 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X2-85 over Radeon 8065S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8065S
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (15.4 vs 7 TFLOPS)
  • Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-85
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology

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 - 1403
Solar Bay - 14961
Port Royal - 735
Fire Strike - 7510
Wild Life Extreme - 6989
Night Raid - 24606
Sources: 3DMark [1]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 655
DirectX 11 - 45 FPS
DirectX 12 - 23 FPS
GPU Compute - 2523 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 20 samples

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8065S and Adreno X2-85

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released September 5, 2026 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Adreno X2
GPU Codename Gorgon Halo Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (17th and 51st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 3000 MHz 1350-1700 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 12
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 40 -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 192 GPixel/s 86-109 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 480 GTexel/s 173-218 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8065S +120%
15.4 TFLOPS
5.5-7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 IGP
TGP 55 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 220 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
152 GB/s

API

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

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