AMD Radeon 660M vs Adreno X2-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 660M with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 3 years and 9 months newer Adreno X2-85 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X2-85 over Radeon 660M
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-85
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 4.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (7 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 5.3x more shading units (2048 vs 384)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
27
13
11
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
12
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
17
13
-
-
Far Cry 6
20
16
9
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
10
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
18
15
13
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
13
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
9
9
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
17
14
11
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 -
1080p Ultra 12 -
1440p Ultra 9 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low High

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Adreno X2-85 +148%
3331
Time Spy 1514 1403
Solar Bay 6396 14961
Port Royal 586 735
Fire Strike 4879 7510
Wild Life Extreme 2676 6989
Night Raid 18958 24606
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 36 img/sec -
Face Detection 16.4 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 0.48 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 0.53 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 46.5 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 2056.5 FPS -
API OpenCL -
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
5855
G2D Mark 654 655
DirectX 11 47 FPS 45 FPS
DirectX 12 23 FPS 23 FPS
GPU Compute 1321 Ops/s 2523 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]5 & 20 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9]4 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 1465 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 1706 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4266 -
Face Detection (HP) 5115 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 12992 -
Text Classification (SP) 1116 -
Machine Translation (HP) 1859 -
Object Detection (SP) 1574 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 6538 -
Style Transfer (SP) 26656 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 660M and Adreno X2-85

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Adreno X2
GPU Codename Rembrandt Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
Successor - Radeon 8040S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 150
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (115th and 50th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 1800-1900 MHz (configurable) 1350-1700 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 12
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 6 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1024KB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 29-30 GPixel/s 86-109 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 43-46 GTexel/s 173-218 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.4-1.5 TFLOPS
Adreno X2-85 +367%
5.5-7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 IGP
TGP 15 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 3 nm
Die Size 208 mm² 220 mm²
Transistor Count 13.1 billion -
Transistor Density 62.98 MTr/mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
152 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4

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