Radeon RX 8040S vs RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0 (2025−2026)	RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code name	GB207	no data
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	19 March 2025 (less than a year ago)	6 January 2025 (less than a 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 cores	1792	16
Core clock speed	2235 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz	2800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	141.1	no data
Floating-point processing power	9.032 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	24	no data
TMUs	56	no data
Tensor Cores	56	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	14	no data
L1 Cache	1.8 MB	no data
L2 Cache	24 MB	no data

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).

Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

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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 type	GDDR7	no data
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	no data
Memory bus width	96 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+
Resizable BAR	+	+

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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

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API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.4	-
CUDA	12.0	-
DLSS	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

19 March 2025

6 January 2025

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