AMD Radeon 8050S: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon 8050S provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 36.21% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon 8050S 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 8050S: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking129
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency53.01of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code nameStrix Halo
Market segmentLaptop
Release date6 January 2025 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon 8050S's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 8050S's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1295 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed2800 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors34,000 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology4 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate358.4of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power11.47 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs64of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs128of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores32of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
L2 Cache8 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L3 Cache64 MBof 256 MB (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 8050S 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).

InterfacePCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 8050S: 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 typeSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Shared memory+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 8050S. 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon 8050S, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.8
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.1
Vulkan1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 8050S. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Radeon 8050S
36.21

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.

Radeon 8050S 16012
Samples: 69

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Radeon 8050S 36323

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Radeon 8050S 79256

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Radeon 8050S 23521

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Radeon 8050S 130145

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon 8050S 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD94

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 210−220
Cyberpunk 2077 90−95
Hogwarts Legacy 90−95

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 130−140
Counter-Strike 2 210−220
Cyberpunk 2077 90−95
Far Cry 5 100
Fortnite 160−170
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Forza Horizon 5 120−130
Hogwarts Legacy 90−95
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 150−160
Valorant 220−230

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 130−140
Counter-Strike 2 210−220
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Cyberpunk 2077 90−95
Far Cry 5 96
Fortnite 160−170
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Forza Horizon 5 120−130
Grand Theft Auto V 118
Hogwarts Legacy 90−95
Metro Exodus 90−95
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 150−160
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 156
Valorant 220−230

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 130−140
Cyberpunk 2077 90−95
Far Cry 5 85
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Hogwarts Legacy 90−95
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 150−160
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 92

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 160−170

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 95−100
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Grand Theft Auto V 75−80
Metro Exodus 55−60
Valorant 250−260

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 95−100
Cyberpunk 2077 45−50
Far Cry 5 90−95
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
Hogwarts Legacy 45−50
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 70−75

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 100−110

4K
High

Counter-Strike 2 45−50
Grand Theft Auto V 80−85
Metro Exodus 35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 60−65
Valorant 230−240

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 60−65
Cyberpunk 2077 20−22
Far Cry 5 50−55
Forza Horizon 4 70−75
Hogwarts Legacy 24−27
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 50−55

4K
Epic

Fortnite 50−55

Closest competitors

Radeon 8050S's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon 8050S is GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile, which is slower by 1% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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