AMD Radeon 8060S vs Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)
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AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 3 years and 3 months older Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) that utilizes 512 pipelines and 4096 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
- Performs better (up to 32%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 40% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 10.6 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 40 dedicated RT cores
- Achieves 30% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 71K)
Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)
- Has 60% more shading units (4096 vs 2560)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 135 79 62 40 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 124 104 70 37 |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 195 137 95 50 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 108 95 69 40 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 59 46 20 |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 97 90 60 37 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 80 65 43 25 |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 75 65 39 17 |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 132 116 79 37 |
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| 1080p High | 113 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 90 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 63 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 34 | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Medium |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10038 | - |
| Solar Bay | 47180 | 22586 |
| Port Royal | 5546 | - |
| Fire Strike | 26807 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19262 | 19880 |
| Night Raid | 101008 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 232.1 img/sec | 120.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 122.5 img/sec | 78.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.92 Gpixels/sec | 3.18 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.07 Gpixels/sec | 6.15 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.49 Gpixels/sec | 3.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | 0.62 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 396.3 Gpixels/sec | 229.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13016.5 FPS | 8822.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1171 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 156 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 9032 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
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) | 11176 | 5466 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14027 | 12415 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27198 | 15930 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 40613 | 23179 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 92878 | 58520 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4158 | 2299 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6473 | 1713 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7431 | 5388 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 41825 | 26458 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 190221 | 98278 |
| Framework | ONNX | Core ML |
| Backend | DirectML | GPU |
Results were compared using different ML frameworks
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | October 18, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above | - Apple M1 Max or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 392 - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388 - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 |
- Apple M1 Max |
Laptop GPU ranking (25th and 54th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 1296 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 4096 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 256 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 128 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 512 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | No |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 186 GPixel/s | 166 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 464 GTexel/s | 332 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Custom |
| TGP | 55 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | - | 46.4 billion |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 94°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 6400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12800 Mbps |
| 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 | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | - |
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