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AMD Radeon 8050S vs Apple M6 GPU (12-core)

Radeon 8050S
VS
Apple M6 GPU (12-core)
AMD Radeon 8050S
Strix Halo
Apple M6 GPU (12-core)
Custom

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 7 months newer Apple M6 GPU (12-core) that utilizes 192 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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
DeviceFacts 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 M6 GPU (12-core) over Radeon 8050S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 4.9 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 32 dedicated RT cores
  • Has 33% more shading units (2048 vs 1536)
Reasons to consider the Apple M6 GPU (12-core)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 2 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 8050S
vs
M6 GPU (12-core)

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 Medium High

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 1125 -
DirectX 11 149 FPS -
DirectX 12 70 FPS -
GPU Compute 7622 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 203 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 3 samples
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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 8050S and Apple M6 GPU (12-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 August 25, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Strix Halo Custom
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above - Apple M6 (12-Core) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max 485
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 490
- AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 485
- AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 490
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 390		 - Apple M6 (12-Core)
Laptop GPU ranking (37th and 27th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz -
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 1600 MHz
Shading Units 2048 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 192
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 No
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 179 GPixel/s 128 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTexel/s 154 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8050S +135%
11.5 TFLOPS
M6 GPU (12-core)
4.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 55 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 2 nm
Die Size 308 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 10667 MHz
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.2 -
Vulkan 1.4 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 -
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a -

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