AMD Radeon 8065S vs Apple A18 Pro GPU
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AMD Radeon 8065S
Gorgon Halo
Apple A18 Pro GPU
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8065S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years older Apple A18 Pro GPU that utilizes 128 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8065S
- 6.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (15.4 vs 2.3 TFLOPS)
- Has 3.3x more shading units (2560 vs 768)
Reasons to consider the Apple A18 Pro GPU
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 7374 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 3947 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 57.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 91.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 0.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 1.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 1.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 0.45 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 84.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 3061 FPS |
| API | - | Metal |
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8065S
No benchmark results yet
Apple A18 Pro GPU
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-24 -> Rennsport | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 19670 |
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) | - | 3264 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 4550 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 6705 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 11770 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 15548 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 3678 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 5678 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 3360 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 13468 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 31541 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8065S and Apple A18 Pro GPUGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | September 5, 2026 | September 9, 2024 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Gorgon Halo | Custom |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 or above | - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 | - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) |
Laptop GPU ranking (17th and 82nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | - |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 1490 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 768 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 40 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | - |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 128 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 192 GPixel/s | - |
| Texture Fill Rate | 480 GTexel/s | 60 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Custom |
| TGP | 55 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 7500 MHz |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | - |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | - |
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