AMD Radeon 8065S vs Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core)
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AMD Radeon 8065S
Gorgon Halo
Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8065S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 6 months older Apple M5 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 M5 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 | - | 79263 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 42423 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 257 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 182.1 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 5.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 8.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 8.86 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 1.28 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 455.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 21658 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8065S
No benchmark results yet
Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-16 -> Apple lover | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 146276 |
| 📘 2026-03-25 (Steven) | Cinebench 2024 | 9283 |
| 📘 2026-03-25 (Steven) | Steel Nomad Light | 18486 |
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) | - | 10711 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 42406 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 42905 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 73489 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 289766 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 6087 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 8881 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 10130 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 84224 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 264552 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8065S and Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | September 5, 2026 | March 3, 2026 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| 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 M5 Max (40-сore GPU) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 | - Apple M5 Max (40-сore GPU) |
Laptop GPU ranking (17th and 6th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | - |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 1620 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 | 259 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 480 GTexel/s | 518 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 | - |
| Transistor Count | - | 28 billion |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 9600 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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