AMD Radeon 8050S: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon 8050S provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 37.29% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
Summary
AMD started Radeon 8050S sales on 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.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 8050S: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 93 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) | |
| GPU code name | Strix Point | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 2025 (recently) |
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 cores | 2048 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| Core clock speed | 1295 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 2335 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 34,000 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 298.9 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 9.564 TFLOPS | of 104.8 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 128 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 32 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
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 type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation 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 Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon 8050S, 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 8050S. 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.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon 8050S is GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile, which is slower by 2% and lower by 7 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon 8050S:
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