Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) vs AMD Radeon 8040S

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB), vs AMD Radeon 8040S. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) and AMD Radeon 8040S
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
159
104
97
69
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
The Witcher 3
183
147
107
58
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
259
203
141
82
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Far Cry 6
139
129
109
63
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Hogwarts Legacy
110
89
70
37
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
136
126
98
63
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Ghost of Tsushima
98
81
65
38
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
118
107
71
32
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
183
172
128
73
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p High154n/a
1080p Ultra129n/a
1440p Ultra98n/a
4K Ultra57n/a
DeviationLown/a

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
16113
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
Time Spy15957n/a
Solar Bay74417n/a
Port Royal10146n/a
Fire Strike42385n/a
Night Raid141185n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
148626
AMD Radeon 8040S
35976
Background Blur243.1 frames/s106.8 frames/s
Face Detection149.5 frames/s43.8 frames/s
Horizon Detection5.35 Gpix/sec1.12 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection6.88 Gpix/sec1.17 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur7.76 Gpix/sec1.07 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.57 Gpix/sec0.5 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching740.2 Gpix/sec163 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics22183.7 fps5820.4 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
22479
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
G2D Mark1200n/a
DirectX 11217 fpsn/a
DirectX 1286 fpsn/a
GPU Compute12135 Ops/sn/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
24763
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
47486
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
18826
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
Image Classification (SP)10281n/a
Image Segmentation (HP)29909n/a
Horizon Detection26549n/a
Face Detection (HP)59010n/a
Pose Estimation (Q)117200n/a
Text Classification (SP)3993n/a
Machine Translation (HP)6647n/a
Object Detection (SP)12742n/a
Depth Estimation (Q)44856n/a
Style Transfer (SP)175892n/a
FrameworkONNXn/a
BackendDirectMLn/a

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
4348.58
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia AMD
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced April, 15, 2025 January, 7, 2025
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Universal
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 3.5
Codename GB206-300 Strix Halo

GPU

GPU Frequency 2407 MHz n/a
Boost GPU Frequency 2572 MHz 2800 MHz
Shader Units 4608 1024
TMUs 144 64
ROPs 48 32
Execution Units 36 16
Ray Tracing Cores 36 16
Tensor Cores 144 n/a
L1 cache 128 KB/core n/a
L2 cache 32000 KB/core n/a
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 4 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 123 Gpix/sec 90 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 370 GTex/s 179 GTex/s
FLOPS 23.7 TFLOPS 11.5 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 180 W 45-120 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Max temperature n/a 100 °C
Transistor Size 263 mm² n/a
Transistor count 31.1 billion n/a
Transistor density 118.25 MTr/mm² n/a

Memory

Interface GDDR7 System Shared
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz n/a
Bus 128 bit n/a
ECC support No n/a
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 16 GB n/a
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
448 GB/s
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA 12.0 n/a
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 No

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) the clear winner in this comparison.

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