Radeon 8060S vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

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Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU M5 Max 40-Core GPU
Radeon 8060S Radeon 8060S

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking52101
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data60.73
Architectureno dataRDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code nameno dataStrix Halo
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2026 (recently)6 January 2025 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores402560
Core clock speedno data1295 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data34,000 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data55 Watt
Texture fill rateno data464.0
Floating-point processing powerno data14.85 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40
L2 Cacheno data8 MB
L3 Cacheno data64 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5x-8533System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD101
−8.9%
110
+8.9%
1440p57
+0%
57
+0%
4K36
+2.9%
35
−2.9%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 230−240
+0%
230−240
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Resident Evil 4 Remake 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Counter-Strike 2 215
+0%
215
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Far Cry 5 114
+0%
114
+0%
Fortnite 180−190
+0%
180−190
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Forza Horizon 5 201
+0%
201
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Valorant 240−250
+0%
240−250
+0%

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Counter-Strike 2 109
+0%
109
+0%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
+0%
270−280
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Far Cry 5 108
+0%
108
+0%
Fortnite 180−190
+0%
180−190
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Forza Horizon 5 182
+0%
182
+0%
Grand Theft Auto V 133
+0%
133
+0%
Metro Exodus 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 197
+0%
197
+0%
Valorant 240−250
+0%
240−250
+0%

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Far Cry 5 100
+0%
100
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 112
+0%
112
+0%

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 180−190
+0%
180−190
+0%

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 71
+0%
71
+0%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 300−350
+0%
300−350
+0%
Grand Theft Auto V 77
+0%
77
+0%
Metro Exodus 65−70
+0%
65−70
+0%
Valorant 270−280
+0%
270−280
+0%

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Far Cry 5 88
+0%
88
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 85
+0%
85
+0%

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%

4K
High

Counter-Strike 2 36
+0%
36
+0%
Grand Theft Auto V 80
+0%
80
+0%
Metro Exodus 40−45
+0%
40−45
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 59
+0%
59
+0%
Valorant 260−270
+0%
260−270
+0%

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 70−75
+0%
70−75
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Far Cry 5 50
+0%
50
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 85−90
+0%
85−90
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 60−65
+0%
60−65
+0%

4K
Epic

Fortnite 60−65
+0%
60−65
+0%

This is how Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU and Radeon 8060S compete in popular games:

  • Radeon 8060S is 9% faster in 1080p
  • A tie in 1440p
  • Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU is 3% faster in 4K

All in all, in popular games:

  • there's a draw in 54 tests (100%)

Pros & cons summary

Recency 3 March 2026 6 January 2025

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and Radeon 8060S. We've got no test results to judge.

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