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AMD Radeon 780M vs Adreno X1-85

Radeon 780M
VS
Adreno X1-85
AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 10 months newer Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over Radeon 780M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Performs better (up to 29%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 34% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (32K vs 24K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Has 2x more shading units (1536 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 780M
vs
Adreno X1-85

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
52
26
22
11
 -
The Witcher 3
26
26
13
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
44
31
21
9
 -
Far Cry 6
39
29
21
10
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
22
15
11
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
34
29
19
12
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
21
15
10
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
19
20
10
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
31
20
9
 -
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 33 -
1080p Ultra 25 -
1440p Ultra 16 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

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
Radeon 780M +29%
2661
Adreno X1-85
2067
Time Spy 2787 1695
Solar Bay 11525 10596
Port Royal 1579 -
Fire Strike 7885 6134
Wild Life Extreme 5305 6152
Night Raid 33367 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 780M +34%
32713
Adreno X1-85
24387
Background Blur 86.4 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 4692.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 780M +127%
6762
Adreno X1-85
2981
G2D Mark 885 518
DirectX 11 65 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 30 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 3577 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 12072 & 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 182 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL27852
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL23850
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL28775
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
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Adreno X1-85
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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
Radeon 780M +317%
9091
Adreno X1-85
2178
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 780M +317%
13510
Adreno X1-85
3240
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 780M +272%
6786
Adreno X1-85
1825
Image Classification (SP) 3860 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 3084
Face Detection (HP) 12855 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 7719
Text Classification (SP) 2578 292
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 1108
Object Detection (SP) 3078 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Phoenix Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - Radeon 8050S - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more		 - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 113th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 6
Ray-tracing Cores 12 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 86-90 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 780M
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +7%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 IGP
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 178 mm² -
Transistor Count 25.4 billion -
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
14 (70%)
6 (30%)
Total votes: 20

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