AMD Radeon 8050S vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Comparison

The AMD Radeon 8050S and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti occupy very different corners of the graphics landscape, and the recorded data shows a clear, if lopsided, comparison. The RTX 4070 Ti, a dual-slot desktop card with a 285 W power draw, dominates both shared benchmark tests by massive margins, while the Radeon 8050S, an integrated graphics processor from the Strix Halo family, delivers far lower raw scores but does so within a power envelope that is a fraction of its rival’s. For anyone evaluating these two options, the choice hinges entirely on whether the workload can run on a portable device with minimal power constraints, or whether a dedicated expansion card is acceptable. The data leaves no room for ambiguity: one product offers desktop-class performance, the other offers efficiency and integration, and the 62.8 percent and 72.7 percent deficits in the head-to-head tests tell the whole story in two numbers.

The Verdict

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the unambiguous performance winner in every recorded measurement recorded in the database. It wins both head-to-head tests: it scores 176953 in Geekbench OpenCL, a 62.8 percent improvement over the Radeon 8050S’s 65818, and 213808 in Geekbench Vulkan, a 72.7 percent improvement over the Radeon 8050S’s 58398. Its average benchmark score across all tests in its own record is 44795, which places it in the 84th percentile of all GPUs globally. The Radeon 8050S, by comparison, has an average score of 62108, which places it in the 89th percentile of all GPUs globally. Interestingly, the Radeon 8050S’s percentile is higher, at 89 percent, than the RTX 4070 Ti’s 84 percent, indicating that the Radeon’s average performance sits above a larger share of the overall GPU market. The RTX 4070 Ti’s 285W power draw and 600W suggested PSU make it a desktop-oriented part, while the Radeon 8050S is an IGP with a 55W TDP, no power connectors, and PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, designed for portable devices. The RTX 4070 Ti is end-of-life, released on 2023-01-02, with a successor in the GeForce 50 series; the Radeon 8050S is active, released on 2025-01-05, with its predecessor Polaris Mobile. For those who need the highest raw scores, the RTX 4070 Ti is the clear choice, but the data shows that the Radeon 8050S, with its system-shared memory and system-dependent bandwidth, is a different product category. The Radeon 8050S is not a competitor in the same class; it is an integrated solution for systems where a dual-slot graphics card is not an option.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 4070 Ti wins decisively in both recorded tests, and the margins are substantial enough to define its use case as a high-performance desktop GPU. In Geekbench OpenCL, it scores 176953, which is a 62.8 percent higher score than the Radeon 8050S’s 65818. In Geekbench Vulkan, the difference is even larger in absolute terms 213808 for the RTX 4070 Ti, a 72.7 percent improvement over the Radeon 8050S’s 58398. These wins place the RTX 4070 Ti squarely in a position for users who run applications that leverage OpenCL and Vulkan APIs and who expect the 7680 shading units, 60 RT cores, 240 tensor cores, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, and 40.09 TFLOPS FP32 performance of the Ada Lovelace architecture. The Radeon 8050S, with 2048 shading units, 32 RT cores, 128 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 11.47 TFLOPS FP32, does not win any of the head-to-head benchmarks recorded. The data shows zero wins for the Radeon 8050S and two wins for the RTX 4070 Ti. Where the Radeon 8050S does have a claim is not in the benchmark scores, but in its system profile: it is an IGP, meaning it requires no power connectors, no slot width beyond the integrated processor itself, and its memory is system shared, making it a viable option only in portable or compact devices. The RTX 4070 Ti, which is 285 mm long, 112 mm tall, and 42 mm wide, requires a dual-slot slot width, a 16-pin power connector, and a 600 W suggested PSU, which is a completely different deployment scenario. The Radeon 8050S’s 55 W TDP versus 285 W TDP for the RTX 4070 Ti is a qualitative difference in power draw that the benchmark results do not capture, but the data does show the Radeon’s advantage is not in speed, but in its form factor and power requirements. For any application that needs the highest recorded scores, the RTX 4070 Ti is the only option among these two.

Architecture Differences

The two GPUs are built on different architectures, nodes, and designs that explain the performance gap. The AMD Radeon 8050S uses the RDNA 3.5 architecture, on a 4 nm process at TSMC, with a die size of 308 mm², and the chip is called Strix Halo. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti uses the Ada Lovelace architecture, on a 5 nm process at TSMC, with a die size of 294 mm², and the chip is called AD104. The RTX 4070 Ti has 35,800 million transistors, a transistor density of 121.8M per mm², while the Radeon 8050S’s transistor count is unknown in the database. The Radeon 8050S has lower clock speeds with a base clock of 1295 MHz and a boost clock of 2800 MHz, while the RTX 4070 Ti has a base clock of 2310 MHz and boost of 2610 MHz. The memory setup is a major difference: the Radeon 8050S uses system shared memory, system shared type, system shared bus width, and system dependent bandwidth, whereas the RTX 4070 Ti has 12 GB of GDDR6X, a 192 bit bus width, and 504.2 GB/s bandwidth. The RTX 4070 Ti’s memory clock is 1313 MHz, with 21 Gbps effective. The Radeon 8050S’s memory clock is listed as system shared, so no dedicated memory clock is available. In terms of compute units, the RTX 4070 Ti has 7680 shading units, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 60 RT cores, and 240 tensor cores, while the Radeon 8050S has 2048 shading units, 128 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 32 RT cores, with no tensor core count listed. The pixel rate for the RTX 4070 Ti is 208.8 GPixel/s, and the texture rate is 626.4 GTexel/s, while the Radeon 8050S has a pixel rate of 179.2 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 358.4 GTexel/s. FP32 performance is 40.09 TFLOPS for the RTX 4070 Ti versus 11.47 TFLOPS for the Radeon 8050S, and both have FP16 at 1:1 ratio with FP32. Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The bus interface differs, with the Radeon 8050S using PCIe 5.0 x16 and the RTX 4070 Ti using PCIe 4.0 x16. Display outputs differ: the RTX 4070 Ti has 1x HDMI 2.1 and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, while the Radeon 8050S’s display outputs are portable device dependent. The Radeon 8050S is an IGP with no slot width, no power connectors, and a 55 W TDP, while the RTX 4070 Ti is dual-slot with a 16-pin power connector and a 285 W TDP. The manufacturing process is 4 nm for AMD versus 5 nm for NVIDIA, and the die sizes are close, 308 mm² versus 294 mm², but the transistor counts differ significantly, with NVIDIA’s 35,800 million transistors versus unknown for AMD. These architectural differences line up with the benchmark scores, where the RTX 4070 Ti’s much higher shading unit count, memory bandwidth, and FP32 throughput correlate with its dominant performance in OpenCL and Vulkan tests.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the Geekbench OpenCL benchmark?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti wins the Geekbench OpenCL benchmark with a score of 176953, which is 62.8 percent ahead of the AMD Radeon 8050S’s score of 65818.

Q: What is the performance difference in the Geekbench Vulkan benchmark?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti scores 213808 in Geekbench Vulkan, while the Radeon 8050S scores 58398, a 72.7 percent difference in favor of the RTX 4070 Ti.

Q: How do the power requirements of these two GPUs compare?

A: The Radeon 8050S has a 55 W TDP and no power connectors, while the RTX 4070 Ti has a 285 W TDP, a 1x 16-pin power connector, and a suggested PSU of 600 W.

Q: What are the memory configurations of each GPU?

A: The Radeon 8050S uses system shared memory with system dependent bandwidth, while the RTX 4070 Ti has 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192 bit bus with 504.2 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: Which GPU has a higher percentile ranking among all GPUs?

A: The Radeon 8050S has a percentile rank of 89, which is higher than the RTX 4070 Ti’s percentile rank of 84, despite the RTX 4070 Ti having higher benchmark scores in the head-to-head tests.

Q: What is the release date and production status of each GPU?

A: The Radeon 8050S was released on 2025-01-05 and is active in production, while the RTX 4070 Ti was released on 2023-01-02 and is end-of-life.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The head-to-head benchmark results are limited to two tests, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti wins both decisively. In Geekbench OpenCL, the RTX 4070 Ti scores 176953, while the AMD Radeon 8050S scores 65818, resulting in a delta of 62.8 percent in favor of the NVIDIA card. This is a significant margin, indicating that the RTX 4070 Ti is more than two and a half times faster in this test. In Geekbench Vulkan, the gap is even wider: the RTX 4070 Ti scores 213808, while the Radeon 8050S scores 58398, a 72.7 percent difference. The RTX 4070 Ti is nearly three and a half times faster in Vulkan. The total wins are 2 for the RTX 4070 Ti and 0 for the Radeon 8050S. These numbers align with the hardware specifications: the RTX 4070 Ti has 7680 shading units versus 2048 for the Radeon 8050S, 60 RT cores versus 32, 240 tensor cores versus none listed, 504.2 GB/s of dedicated memory bandwidth versus system dependent, and 40.09 TFLOPS FP32 versus 11.47 TFLOPS. The RTX 4070 Ti’s 12 GB of GDDR6X also gives it a dedicated memory pool, whereas the Radeon 8050S relies on system shared memory. The Radeon 8050S’s 55 W TDP, however, is a fraction of the RTX 4070 Ti’s 285 W TDP, and its IGP form factor with no power connectors makes it a fundamentally different product. The benchmark scores show that for raw performance, the RTX 4070 Ti is the clear leader, but the Radeon 8050S’s lower power draw and integrated nature are attributes that do not appear in these particular tests. The RTX 4070 Ti’s average benchmark score of 44795, while its nearest rival is the RTX 5090 Mobile with a 0.8 percent delta, shows that it is competitively positioned even among its own peers. The Radeon 8050S’s average score of 62108, with nearest rivals like the Radeon Pro W6600M at a 0.3 percent delta and the Radeon Pro Vega 56 at a 2.5 percent delta, places it in a different performance tier. The 62.8 percent and 72.7 percent deltas in the head-to-head tests are the most relevant figures for a direct comparison, and they clearly demonstrate that the RTX 4070 Ti outperforms the Radeon 8050S by a substantial margin in both OpenCL and Vulkan workloads. The raw data is unambiguous: the RTX 4070 Ti is the faster GPU in every recorded benchmark, while the Radeon 8050S offers a lower-power, integrated alternative that does not compete on raw score.