AMD Radeon 8040S vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 8040S, vs AMD Radeon RX 580. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 8040S and AMD Radeon RX 580
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
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
76
38
33
15
The Witcher 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
52
40
23
13
Counter-Strike 2
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
78
56
37
16
Far Cry 6
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
58
49
34
17
Hogwarts Legacy
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
33
23
20
10
COD Modern Warfare 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
47
41
27
15
Ghost of Tsushima
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
33
24
16
9
Cyberpunk 2077
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
30
27
13
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
60
51
31
18
Avg FPS
1080p Highn/a52
1080p Ultran/a39
1440p Ultran/a26
4K Ultran/a13
Deviationn/aLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
AMD Radeon RX 580
4176
Time Spyn/a4353
Port Royaln/a527
Fire Striken/a14979
Night Raidn/a56876
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 8040S
35976
AMD Radeon RX 580
40514
Background Blur106.8 frames/s59.5 frames/s
Face Detection43.8 frames/s33.8 frames/s
Horizon Detection1.12 Gpix/sec1.56 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection1.17 Gpix/sec3.1 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur1.07 Gpix/sec2.92 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.5 Gpix/sec0.33 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching163 Gpix/sec161.8 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics5820.4 fps5395.1 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
AMD Radeon RX 580
8831
G2D Markn/a767
DirectX 11n/a60 fps
DirectX 12n/a43 fps
GPU Computen/a3529 Ops/s

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD AMD
Build Integrated Discrete
Announced January, 7, 2025 April, 18, 2017
Form Factor Laptop use PC use
Use case Universal Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.5 GCN 4.0
Codename Strix Halo Polaris 20
Price n/a 229

GPU

GPU Frequency n/a 1257 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2800 MHz 1340 MHz
Shader Units 1024 2304
TMUs 64 144
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 16 n/a
Ray Tracing Cores 16 No
Tensor Cores n/a No
L1 cache n/a 16 KB/core
L2 cache n/a 2000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 Gpix/sec 43 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 179 GTex/s 193 GTex/s
FLOPS 11.5 TFLOPS 6.2 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 45-120 W 185 W
Process TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process tech. 4 nm 14 nm
Max temperature 100 °C n/a
Transistor Size n/a 232 mm²
Transistor count n/a 5 billion
Transistor density n/a 21.55 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface System Shared GDDR5
Memory Frequency n/a 2000 MHz
Bus n/a 256 bit
ECC support n/a No
Effective Memory Speed n/a 8000 MB/s
Memory Size n/a 8 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
AMD Radeon RX 580
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon 8040S the clear winner in this comparison.

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