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AMD Radeon 860M vs Adreno X2-90

Radeon 860M
VS
Adreno X2-90
AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point
Adreno X2-90
Adreno X2

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 9 months newer Adreno X2-90 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X2-90 over Radeon 860M
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-90
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (7.6 vs 3.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 4x more shading units (2048 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 860M
vs
Adreno X2-90

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
41
24
20
11
 -
The Witcher 3
19
18
11
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
39
26
19
9
 -
Far Cry 6
31
26
16
9
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
16
12
10
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
28
27
17
12
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
16
12
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
19
13
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
29
22
15
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 26 -
1080p Ultra 20 -
1440p Ultra 14 -
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 860M
2191
Adreno X2-90 +135%
5142
Time Spy 2604 3782
Solar Bay 11094 24300
Port Royal 1046 1592
Fire Strike 6772 10039
Wild Life Extreme 5124 9890
Night Raid 29064 57486
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 57.2 img/sec -
Face Detection 30.5 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 0.83 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 1.16 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 0.93 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.35 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 97.8 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 3933.5 FPS -
API OpenCL -
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 860M
4873
Adreno X2-90 +56%
7585
G2D Mark 918 592
DirectX 11 37 FPS 57 FPS
DirectX 12 25 FPS 29 FPS
GPU Compute 2434 Ops/s 3638 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2139 & 61 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 32 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 860M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer)Geekbench 6 OpenCL24017
📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer)Steel Nomad Light2476
📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36Geekbench 6 OpenCL24971
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Adreno X2-90
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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
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 -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Adreno X2-90

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Adreno X2
GPU Codename Krackan Point Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140T - Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
Successor - Radeon 8040S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 350		 - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-88-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 34th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 600 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 3000 MHz 1700-1850 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 12
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 8 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 GPixel/s 109-118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTexel/s 218-237 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 860M
3.1 TFLOPS
Adreno X2-90 +145%
7-7.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 IGP
TGP 15 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 220 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion -
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus - 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Radeon 860M
n/a
Adreno X2-90
228 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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