AMD Radeon 8050S vs Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 8050S, vs Apple M5 GPU (10-Core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 8050S and Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
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

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Time Spy9006n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 8050S
81081
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
75777
Background Blur201.1 frames/sn/a
Face Detection104.8 frames/sn/a
Horizon Detection2.53 Gpix/secn/a
Edge Detection3.37 Gpix/secn/a
Gaussian Blur3.12 Gpix/secn/a
Feature Matching0.93 Gpix/secn/a
Stereo Matching327.5 Gpix/secn/a
Particle Physics12215.6 fpsn/a
APIOpenCLn/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon 8050S
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
13289
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon 8050S
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
24800
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon 8050S
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
23572
Image Classification (SP)n/a6348
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a16813
Horizon Detectionn/a30322
Face Detection (HP)n/a34387
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a111591
Text Classification (SP)n/a2319
Machine Translation (HP)n/a5555
Object Detection (SP)n/a6450
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a53195
Style Transfer (SP)n/a82314
Frameworkn/aCore ML
Backendn/aGPU

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Announced January, 7, 2025 October, 15, 2025
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Universal Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
Codename Strix Halo Custom

GPU

Boost GPU Frequency 2800 MHz 2240 MHz
Shader Units 2048 1280
TMUs 128 80
ROPs 64 40
Execution Units 32 160
Ray Tracing Cores 32 n/a
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 179 Gpix/sec 90 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTex/s 179 GTex/s
FLOPS 22.9 TFLOPS 5.7 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 45-120 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Max temperature 100 °C 100 °C
Transistor Size 441.7 mm² n/a
Transistor count n/a 28 billion

Memory

Interface System Shared System Shared
Bus n/a 128 bit
ECC support n/a No
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon 8050S
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
153 GB/s

API

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

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon 8050S the clear winner in this comparison.

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