Radeon RX 8040S vs RX 9060 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 4.0 (2025)RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code nameNavi 44no data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 May 20256 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 cores204816
Core clock speed2220 MHzno data
Boost clock speed3230 MHz2800 MHz
Number of transistors53,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate413.4no data
Floating-point processing power26.46 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 x8no 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 amount8 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

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x 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 18 May 2025 6 January 2025

RX 9060 XT has an age advantage of 4 months.

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

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

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