AMD Radeon 8060S vs GeForce RTX 3070
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AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
GA104
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 4 years and 3 months older GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the DeviceFacts Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
- Performs significantly better (up to 44%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
- Shows 40% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 88 vs 63 FPS
- 37% higher maximum theoretical performance (20.3 vs 14.8 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Achieves 35% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (126K vs 93K)
- Has 2.3x more shading units (5888 vs 2560)
- Features 184 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 135 79 62 40 |
147 99 86 61 |
| The Witcher 3 | 124 104 70 37 |
168 143 100 54 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 195 137 95 50 |
244 194 137 77 |
| Far Cry 6 | 108 95 69 40 |
132 121 96 54 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 59 46 20 |
97 80 62 35 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 97 90 60 37 |
121 113 85 52 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 80 65 43 25 |
89 74 56 31 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 75 65 39 17 |
106 94 59 28 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 132 116 79 37 |
165 153 113 60 |
| 1080p High | 113 | 141 |
| 1080p Ultra | 90 | 119 |
| 1440p Ultra | 63 | 88 |
| 4K Ultra | 34 | 50 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10038 | 13644 |
| Solar Bay | 47180 | 64452 |
| Port Royal | 5546 | 8312 |
| Fire Strike | 26807 | 34056 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19262 | 28488 |
| Night Raid | 101008 | 122159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 232.1 img/sec | 161.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 122.5 img/sec | 117.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.92 Gpixels/sec | 5.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.07 Gpixels/sec | 8.05 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.49 Gpixels/sec | 6.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | 1.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 396.3 Gpixels/sec | 550.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13016.5 FPS | 17613.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1171 | 1005 |
| DirectX 11 | 156 FPS | 183 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | 84 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9032 Ops/s | 11007 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8060S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3070
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-11-15 (mit) | Cinebench 2024 | 9652 |
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 | 7624 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14027 | 23420 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27198 | 17898 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 40613 | 40535 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 92878 | 83624 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4158 | 2724 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6473 | 4481 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7431 | 10304 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 41825 | 30418 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 190221 | 180089 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and GeForce RTX 3070General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | October 22, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $499 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | GA104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop | - Radeon RX 7800 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above | - Intel Core i7 12700K 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 |
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Laptop GPU ranking (#25th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#44th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 1725 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 184 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 4MB 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 | 317 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 55 W | 220 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 17 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 43.37 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | - | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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