AMD Radeon RX 8060S

Description

The AMD Radeon RX 8060S is a mobile graphics card for gaming and high-performance notebooks based on the new RDNA 3.5 architecture. It is aimed at demanding users who are looking for a balanced mix of efficiency and gaming performance.

Power and gaming performance

The RX 8060S impresses in 1440p gaming and can display many current titles in high details with smooth frame rates. Benchmarks show that in games such as Cyberpunk 2077 or Horizon Forbidden West, it is roughly on a par with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 laptop GPU when AMD FSR is enabled. Thanks to RDNA 3.5 optimizations, it particularly benefits in DX12 and Vulkan titles, while NVIDIA is still slightly ahead in ray tracing and can score points with DLSS3. Compared to NVIDIA's RTX 4070 laptop GPU, AMD relies on a strong price-performance ratio, optimized energy efficiency and stands out with better integration into AMD systems (e.g. SmartShift on Ryzen laptops). In synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark Time Spy, it is slightly behind the RTX 4070, but can catch up in some games thanks to FSR 3.1.

Functions and connectivity

With the AMD Radeon 8060S, you can control up to 4 displays via HDMI and DisplayPort, build on refresh rates of up to 600Hz and make use of AMD FreeSync. The RDNA 3.5 architecture enables the iGPU to improve ray tracing and AI acceleration. Depending on the notebook and configuration, the RX 8060S can access up to 8 GB GDDR6. Thanks to AV1 encoding and Miracast support, the graphics card is ideal for streamers and content creators.

The Radeon RX 8060S is an excellent choice for gamers and creatives looking for a powerful but efficient GPU. It offers similar gaming performance to the RTX 4070, but builds on AMD's strengths in pricing and system integration. If you want to maximize ray tracing, you are better off with NVIDIA - for everyone else, the RX 8060S is a convincing alternative.