Radeon 8040S vs Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

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Review

Radeon 8040S
Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
Gaming
22
37
Workstation
17
59
Energy Efficiency
66
59
Quick Comparison Final Score
28
47
AI/ML
0
45
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Radeon 8040S and Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S

  • + RDNA 3.5 architecture
  • + Strix Halo codename
  • + System Shared memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

  • + Blackwell 2.0 architecture
  • + GB205-300-A1 codename
  • + 12GB GDDR7 memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Pros & Cons

Radeon 8040S
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • No discrete card needed — integrated solution
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions

"A budget AMD Radeon 8040S integrated graphics with limited performance overall. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • Generous 12GB VRAM
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • DLSS upscaling support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions

"A mid-range Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) graphics card with modest workstation performance (59/100). Suited for 1080p gaming and everyday tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
79
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

The Witcher 3

1080p High
111
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
149
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Far Cry 6

1080p High
94
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
63
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Call of Duty

1080p High
83
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
58
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
73
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Tomb Raider

1080p High
112
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
FPS Table
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 — — — — 79 — — —
The Witcher 3 — — — — 111 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 — — — — 149 — — —
Far Cry 6 — — — — 94 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy — — — — 63 — — —
Call of Duty — — — — 83 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima — — — — 58 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 — — — — 73 — — —
Tomb Raider — — — — 112 — — —
Average FPS ———— 91———
Average FPS by Resolution
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
1080p High — 112
1080p Ultra — 91
1440p Ultra — 66
4K Ultra — 37
Margin of Error — High

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon 8040S
—
Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
8100
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
Time Spy — 12327
Solar Bay — 69295
Port Royal — —
Fire Strike — 28339
Wild Life Extreme — —
Night Raid — —
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 8040S
10431
Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) +111%
21959
Radeon 8040S Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
G2D Mark 1094 833
DirectX 11 79 FPS 224 FPS
DirectX 12 46 FPS 100 FPS
GPU Compute 5066 Ops/s 7578 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Radeon 8040S
376.14
Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) +805%
3405.25

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
GB6 Compute Score 35976 167869
Background Blur 106.8 img/sec 238.8 img/sec
Face Detection 43.8 img/sec 147.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.12 Gpixels/sec 6.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.17 Gpixels/sec 9.27 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.07 Gpixels/sec 10.7 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.5 Gpixels/sec 1.68 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 163 Gpixels/sec 778.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5820.4 FPS 23023.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 24473
GB6 ML Half Precision 44496
GB6 ML Quantized 18924
Image Classification (SP) 9790
Image Segmentation (HP) 28672
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26553
Face Detection (HP) 53161
Pose Estimation (Q) 120306
Text Classification (SP) 3406
Machine Translation (HP) 5910
Object Detection (SP) 12573
Depth Estimation (Q) 47957
Style Transfer (SP) 199379
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
General
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released 7-Jan-25 18-Mar-25
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Strix Halo GB205-300-A1
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380or above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265HXor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Base Clock 1295 MHz 848-1605 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 1605-2430 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 46
Tensor Cores No 184
Ray-tracing Cores 16 46
L1 Cache 512KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 48MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 128-194 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 179 GTexel/s 295-447 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 5.7 TFLOPS 18.9-28.6 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 45-120 W (configurable) 60-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 263 mm²
Transistor Count 31.1 billion
Transistor Density 118.25 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Memory Type System Shared GDDR7
API
Specification Radeon 8040S ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
DirectX 12.2 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3
CUDA No 12
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1b

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