AMD Radeon 860M vs Adreno X1-45
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AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point
Adreno X1-45
Adreno X1
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older Adreno X1-45 that utilizes 3 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 860M
- Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 48% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.1 vs 2.1 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 2.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (22K vs 9K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-45
- Has 50% more shading units (768 vs 512)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 41 24 20 11 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 19 18 11 - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 39 26 19 9 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 31 26 16 9 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 16 12 10 - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 28 27 17 12 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 16 12 9 - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 19 13 - - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 29 22 15 - |
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| 1080p High | 26 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 20 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 14 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2604 | 928 |
| Solar Bay | 11094 | 5990 |
| Port Royal | 1046 | - |
| Fire Strike | 6772 | 3707 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 5124 | 3225 |
| Night Raid | 29064 | 16550 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 57.2 img/sec | 14.2 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.5 img/sec | 6.82 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.83 Gpixels/sec | 0.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.16 Gpixels/sec | 0.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 0.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.35 Gpixels/sec | 0.12 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 97.8 Gpixels/sec | 26.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 3933.5 FPS | 1746.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 920 | 348 |
| DirectX 11 | 37 FPS | 13 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 25 FPS | 10 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 2437 Ops/s | 807 Ops/s |
Recent User Tests
Radeon 860M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24017 |
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Steel Nomad Light | 2476 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24971 |
Adreno X1-45
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-03-18 (Rennsport) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 9564 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 2022 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3987 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6657 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 10337 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 28437 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2326 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4011 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1995 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 12031 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56710 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Adreno X1-45General
| Vendor | Amd | Qualcomm |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | October 24, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Adreno X1 |
| GPU Codename | Krackan Point | Adreno X1 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140T | - Apple M2 GPU (8-core) |
| Successor | - Radeon 8040S | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above | - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 |
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-46-100) |
Laptop GPU ranking (111th and 116th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 600 MHz | 280 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 1107-1367 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 512 | 768 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 48 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 24 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 3 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 8 | - |
| 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 | 48 GPixel/s | 27-33 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 96 GTexel/s | 53-66 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | IGP |
| TGP | 15 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 233 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | 34 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 145.92 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | - |
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 3.2 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | No |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4 |
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