Is AMD's Radeon 8060 iGPU really better than Nvidia's RTX 4070?
Recently surfaced marketing materials claim that.
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- AMD claims its Radeon 8060S iGPU outperforms Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.
- The latest iGPU is said to be better by up to 68% in 1080p gaming benchmarks.
- The iGPU, part of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” APU, recently debuted at CES 2025.
AMD stated that its Radeon 8060S iGPU, launched at CES 2025, outperforms the Nvidia RTX 4070.
Recently surfaced marketing materials from the Santa Clara tech giant claim the Radeon 8060S outperforms the Nvidia RTX 4070 Laptop GPU by up to 68.1% in gaming benchmarks at 1080p on high settings.
When tested across 17 games, the Radeon 8060S showed notable leads. It improved by 68.1% in Borderlands 3 and 52.6% in Baldur’s Gate 3. These comparisons were also made at similar TDP levels against systems like the ROG Flow Z13.
The Radeon 8060 iGPU, which has 40 CUs clocked at up to 2900 MHz, is part of AMD’s high-performance Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” APU that arrived at CES this year.
Based on Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3.5 graphics architectures, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 features 16 cores, 32 threads, a boost clock of 5.1 GHz, and 80 MB of total cache. The APU also includes AI smarts powered by a 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU.
But still, there’s some skepticism in the air about this claim. AMD did not disclose the power configs used for both the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and the Nvidia RTX 4070, and it’s hard to see whether the comparison was made on equal grounds.
Still from Nvidia-related news, the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, including the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, are currently facing severe shortages due to miscommunications between NVIDIA and its board partner.
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