Radeon 860M vs Radeon 8040S
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AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point
AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the Radeon 8040S that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 28 vs 14 FPS
- 84% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.7 vs 3.1 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 57% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (35K vs 22K)
- Has 2x more shading units (1024 vs 512)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 41 24 20 11 |
76 40 31 17 |
| The Witcher 3 | 19 18 11 - |
53 44 26 14 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 39 26 19 9 |
84 60 39 15 |
| Far Cry 6 | 31 26 16 9 |
61 49 35 16 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 16 12 10 - |
33 26 20 10 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 28 27 17 12 |
49 41 31 15 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 16 12 9 - |
33 25 18 10 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 19 13 - - |
32 29 17 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 29 22 15 - |
65 55 32 17 |
| 1080p High | 26 | 54 |
| 1080p Ultra | 20 | 41 |
| 1440p Ultra | 14 | 28 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 13 |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2604 | - |
| Solar Bay | 11094 | - |
| Port Royal | 1046 | - |
| Fire Strike | 6772 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 5124 | - |
| Night Raid | 29064 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 57.2 img/sec | 106.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.5 img/sec | 43.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.83 Gpixels/sec | 1.12 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.16 Gpixels/sec | 1.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 1.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.35 Gpixels/sec | 0.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 97.8 Gpixels/sec | 163 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 3933.5 FPS | 5820.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 920 | 1052 |
| DirectX 11 | 37 FPS | 80 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 25 FPS | 47 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 2437 Ops/s | 5138 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 860M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24017 |
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Steel Nomad Light | 2476 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24971 |
Radeon 8040S
No benchmark results yet
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) | 2022 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3987 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6657 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 10337 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 28437 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2326 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4011 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1995 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 12031 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56710 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Radeon 8040SGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 7, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | RDNA 3.5 |
| GPU Codename | Krackan Point | Strix Halo |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140T | - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop |
| Successor | - Radeon 8040S | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above | - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 |
- AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480 - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 |
Laptop GPU ranking (101st and 77th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 600 MHz | 1295 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 2800 MHz |
| Shading Units | 512 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 8 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 48 GPixel/s | 90 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 96 GTexel/s | 179 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | 55 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 233 mm² | 308 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 34 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 145.92 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | No |
API
| DirectX | 12 | 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 | 2.1 | 2.1a |
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