AMD Radeon 8040S: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon 8040S provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 22.06% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
Contents
Summary
AMD started Radeon 8040S sales 6 January 2025. This is a laptop graphics card based on a RDNA 3.5 architecture and made with 4 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 55 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 8040S: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 257 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 32.26 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) | |
| GPU code name | Strix Halo | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 6 January 2025 (less than a year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon 8040S's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 8040S's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1024 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1295 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 2800 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 55 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 179.2 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 5.734 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 64 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 16 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| L2 Cache | 8 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L3 Cache | 64 MB | of 256 MB (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 8040S and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 8040S: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Shared memory | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 8040S. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon 8040S, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 8040S. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Send your test results of Radeon 8040S.
Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon 8040S is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 130−140 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 50−55 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 45−50 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 90−95 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 130−140 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 50−55 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 75−80 | |
| Fortnite | 110−120 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 90−95 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 75−80 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 45−50 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 90−95 | |
| Valorant | 160−170 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 90−95 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 130−140 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 250−260 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 50−55 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 75−80 | |
| Fortnite | 110−120 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 90−95 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 75−80 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 85−90 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 45−50 | |
| Metro Exodus | 50−55 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 90−95 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 70−75 | |
| Valorant | 160−170 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 90−95 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 50−55 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 75−80 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 90−95 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 45−50 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 90−95 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 70−75 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 110−120 |
1440p
High Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 50−55 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 160−170 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 40−45 | |
| Metro Exodus | 30−35 | |
| Valorant | 200−210 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 65−70 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 50−55 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 60−65 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 24−27 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 35−40 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 55−60 |
4K
High Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 21−24 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 40−45 | |
| Metro Exodus | 20−22 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 35−40 | |
| Valorant | 130−140 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 35−40 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 27−30 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 40−45 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 14−16 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 24−27 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 24−27 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon 8040S is GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon 8040S:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
