A new AMD Ryzen CPU with a mightily powerful integrated Radeon GPU appears to have just beaten the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 in a benchmark leak. The new CPU is reportedly a part of the new AMD Strix Halo CPU range, and comes with a new Radeon 8060S GPU that has some serious power at its disposal.
There have been rumors that AMD Strix Halo CPUs were set to feature monstrously powerful integrated graphics for the future best gaming laptop designs for a while now, and this new rumored AMD CPU benchmark appears to back that up.
There are a few caveats, however. One is that the benchmark result appears to be from 3DMark Time Spy, which is an old DirectX 11 test that doesn’t support many new gaming graphics features, including ray tracing. The other is that we have no details of the rest of this AMD system, other than a purported CPU score.
Let’s get to the result, though, which comes from regular (and often reliable) tech leaker All The Watts! in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The post has emojis for an owl and an angel, implying that the result is from a Strix Halo chip, and it then says “8060”, which we assume refers to the CPU having an integrated Radeon RX 8060S GPU. AMD is rumored to be changing the names of its GPUs for its new lineup, with the new desktop GPUs, such as the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT getting the 9000-series branding, and its integrated GPUs getting the Radeon RX 8000-series names.
There’s also a benchmark screenshot showing two results in the 3DMark font, which we take to mean that they come from the ubiquitous 3DMark Time Spy benchmark. If that’s the case, the GPU score of 12,516 is tremendous for an integrated GPU. As a point of comparison, the RTX 4060 Ti averages 13,507 in this test, and the RTX 4060 averages 10,620. In terms of raw shader power, it looks as though you will soon be able to get decent gaming performance without even needing a discrete GPU.
We’re assuming that the integrated Radeon RX 8060S GPU would fall behind the RTX 4060 when it comes to ray tracing, though. We’re also expecting this integrated GPU to be reliant on system memory, rather than local VRAM, which is going to set back its performance back in other game tests that stress memory. It’s a shame we have no details of the memory speed used to conduct the test.
We’re expecting AMD Strix Halo to be unveiled at CES 2025 in January, but in the meantime, check out our guide to the best gaming CPU if you’re looking to build a new desktop PC.