Radeon 8040S vs RX 9060 XT 16 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking73not rated
Place by popularity70not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation81.15no data
Power efficiency22.94no data
ArchitectureRDNA 4.0 (2025)RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code nameNavi 44no data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 June 2025 (less than a year ago)6 January 2025 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores204816
Core clock speed1700 MHzno data
Boost clock speed3130 MHz2800 MHz
Number of transistors29,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)160 Wattno data
Texture fill rate400.6no data
Floating-point processing power25.64 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs128no data
Ray Tracing Cores32no 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).

InterfacePCIe 5.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount16 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2518 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth322.3 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1b, 2x DisplayPort 2.1ano data
HDMI+-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.2no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2025 6 January 2025

RX 9060 XT 16 GB has an age advantage of 4 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB and Radeon 8040S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB is a desktop graphics card while Radeon 8040S is a notebook one.

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