Radeon 8065S vs Radeon 8050S

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8065S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older Radeon 8050S that utilizes 32 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 Radeon 8050S over Radeon 8065S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8065S
  • 34% higher maximum theoretical performance (15.4 vs 11.5 TFLOPS)
  • Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
127
68
59
38
The Witcher 3 -
113
94
60
33
Counter-Strike 2 -
178
124
88
47
Far Cry 6 -
98
89
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy -
65
57
40
21
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
89
81
54
35
Ghost of Tsushima -
71
58
41
19
Cyberpunk 2077 -
67
60
33
17
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
118
103
71
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 103
1080p Ultra - 82
1440p Ultra - 57
4K Ultra - 31
Margin of Error High Medium

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 - 9171
Solar Bay - 41110
Port Royal - 5181
Fire Strike - 24607
Wild Life Extreme - 18225
Night Raid - 98347
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur - 201.1 img/sec
Face Detection - 104.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 3.37 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 3.12 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 0.93 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 327.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 12215.6 FPS
API - OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 1126
DirectX 11 - 149 FPS
DirectX 12 - 70 FPS
GPU Compute - 7649 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 189 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 3 samples

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) - 9259
Image Segmentation (HP) - 11219
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 19775
Face Detection (HP) - 31987
Pose Estimation (Q) - 62399
Text Classification (SP) - 3757
Machine Translation (HP) - 6121
Object Detection (SP) - 6979
Depth Estimation (Q) - 35735
Style Transfer (SP) - 129996
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8065S and Radeon 8050S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released September 5, 2026 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Gorgon Halo Strix Halo
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 or above - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
Laptop GPU ranking (17th and 36th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 3000 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 2560 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 40 32
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 192 GPixel/s 179 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 480 GTexel/s 358 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
15.4 TFLOPS
11.5 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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