AMD Radeon 8065S vs Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
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AMD Radeon 8065S
Gorgon Halo
Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8065S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 10 months older Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core) that utilizes 640 pipelines and 5120 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 Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Has 2x more shading units (5120 vs 2560)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 61312 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 36641 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 195 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 125.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 4.82 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 7.47 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 5.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 1.06 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 417.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 17079.9 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8065S
No benchmark results yet
Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-07-10 (thomas) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 116478 |
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) | - | 10302 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 23763 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 29314 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 42016 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 105972 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2963 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 6594 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 8935 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 43143 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 221563 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8065S and Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | September 5, 2026 | October 30, 2024 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Gorgon Halo | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 or above | - Apple M4 Max (16-Core) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 |
- Apple M4 Max (16-Core) |
Laptop GPU ranking (17th and 14th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 1578 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 320 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 160 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 640 |
| 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 | 252 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 480 GTexel/s | 505 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Custom |
| TGP | 55 W | 50 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 8533 MHz |
| Bus | - | 512-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
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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