AMD Radeon 8060S is the integrated graphics on the upcoming high-end Zen 5-based Strix Halo APUs, which boasts 40 Compute Units. Looking at its latest leaked benchmark, it looks unbelievably fast and can compete with discrete budget GPUs from the current generation.
Radeon 8060S Graphics Delivers 18% Higher Score Than RTX 4060, Dominates RX 7600 XT as Well
It’s unusual to see integrated graphics outperform a discrete GPU. While we have already come to the point when powerful integrated graphics such as Radeon 880M and 890M are competing with the budget offerings such as GTX 1650 cards, reaching the performance of a $300 discrete GPU, and that too from the current generation isn’t yet achieved.
The AMD Strix Halo seems to have achieved this feat, at least in one of the synthetic benchmarks, revealing the true potential of the flagship integrated graphics. The Radeon 8060S was benchmarked in Time Spy (via @All_The_Watts), delivering 12516 points in the graphics test that convincingly secured its win over both AMD and NVIDIA’s current-gen $300 GPUs.
As shared by @GowroskiT, the Radeon 8060S is about 18% faster than the GeForce RTX 4060, a solid budget GPU with 8 GB VRAM that is capable of delivering 60 fps on ultra settings. Moreover, the Radeon 8060S has also outperformed the RX 7600 XT by 11%, the RX 7600S mobile by a whopping 37%, and the RX 7700S mobile by around 21%. By scoring over 12,500 points, it is successfully matching the performance of the RTX 4070 mobile, RX 6700 XT discrete GPU, and is slightly slower than the RTX 4060 Ti.
Do keep in mind that the Time Spy score may not translate similarly in gaming performance but it is definitely an indication of the huge potential the Radeon 8060S possesses. With such powerful integrated graphics, the Strix Halo is about to climb the ladder to the point where budget and mid-range gaming laptops may not need a discrete GPU at all.
The Radeon 8060S is the iGPU present on the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 and Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APUs, both featuring 16-core and 32-thread configurations based on the Zen 5 architecture. The Radeon 8060S is based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture and is a bigger sibling of the existing Radeon 890M on Strix Point APUs.
It’s expected that the Strix Halo will be launched at CES 2025 alongside various AMD hardware like Radeon RX 9070 XT, FSR 4, and higher-end Ryzen 9000X3D chips.
