Radeon 880M vs Radeon 8050S

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 880M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 7 months newer 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
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 8050S over Radeon 880M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 3.2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 18 FPS
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 4.5 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 37K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (2048 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
55
29
24
13
127
68
59
38
The Witcher 3
31
26
16
-
113
94
60
33
Counter-Strike 2
49
30
23
10
178
124
88
47
Far Cry 6
41
37
24
12
98
89
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
22
17
13
-
65
57
40
21
CoD: Modern Warfare III
38
33
21
13
89
81
54
35
Ghost of Tsushima
20
15
12
-
71
58
41
19
Cyberpunk 2077
22
21
11
-
67
60
33
17
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
40
31
21
9
118
103
71
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 35 103
1080p Ultra 27 82
1440p Ultra 18 57
4K Ultra 9 31
Margin of Error Low 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
Radeon 8050S +183%
8517
Time Spy 3098 9171
Solar Bay 14223 41110
Port Royal 1413 5181
Fire Strike 8565 24607
Wild Life Extreme 6299 18225
Night Raid 37836 98347
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
37347
Radeon 8050S +117%
81081
Background Blur 72 img/sec 201.1 img/sec
Face Detection 35.7 img/sec 104.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.04 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.33 Gpixels/sec 3.37 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec 3.12 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.93 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 115.5 Gpixels/sec 327.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4880.8 FPS 12215.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 8050S +116%
16443
G2D Mark 969 1126
DirectX 11 73 FPS 149 FPS
DirectX 12 32 FPS 70 FPS
GPU Compute 3714 Ops/s 7649 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]737 & 189 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
279.35
Radeon 8050S +326%
1188.98
Sources: Blender [9], [10]19 & 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
Radeon 8050S +113%
18145
GB6 ML Half Precision
12638
22099
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 8050S +140%
14884
Image Classification (SP) 3202 9259
Image Segmentation (HP) 5252 11219
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9782 19775
Face Detection (HP) 11315 31987
Pose Estimation (Q) 30704 62399
Text Classification (SP) 2351 3757
Machine Translation (HP) 4339 6121
Object Detection (SP) 2843 6979
Depth Estimation (Q) 14243 35735
Style Transfer (SP) 69169 129996
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 880M and Radeon 8050S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Strix Point Strix Halo
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130V - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 or above - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 9 465
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
Laptop GPU ranking (86th and 35th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 768 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 12 32
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 46 GPixel/s 179 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 139 GTexel/s 358 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.5 TFLOPS
Radeon 8050S +156%
11.5 TFLOPS

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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