Radeon 8040S vs RX 9070 GRE

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	53	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	57.49	no data
Power efficiency	18.79	no data
Architecture	RDNA 4.0 (2025)	RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code name	Navi 48	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	8 May 2025 (less than a year ago)	6 January 2025 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$549	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

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

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 cores	3072	16
Core clock speed	1420 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2790 MHz	2800 MHz
Number of transistors	53,900 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	220 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	535.7	no data
Floating-point processing power	34.28 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	96	no data
TMUs	192	no data
Tensor Cores	96	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	48	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR6	no data
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	no data
Memory bus width	192 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	432.0 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a	no data
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.2	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-
DLSS	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

8 May 2025

6 January 2025

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