AMD Radeon 880M vs Nvidia N1X (40SM)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 880M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month newer Nvidia N1X (40SM) that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1X (40SM) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of N1X (40SM) over Radeon 880M
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1X (40SM)
  • 5.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (24.8 vs 4.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Has 6.7x more shading units (5120 vs 768)
  • Features 160 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
55
29
24
13
-
The Witcher 3
31
26
16
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
49
30
23
10
-
Far Cry 6
41
37
24
12
-
Hogwarts Legacy
22
17
13
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
38
33
21
13
-
Ghost of Tsushima
20
15
12
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
22
21
11
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
40
31
21
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 35 -
1080p Ultra 27 -
1440p Ultra 18 -
4K Ultra 9 -
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
Time Spy 3098 -
Solar Bay 14223 -
Port Royal 1413 -
Fire Strike 8565 -
Wild Life Extreme 6299 -
Night Raid 37836 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 72 img/sec -
Face Detection 35.7 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 1.04 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 1.33 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.44 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 115.5 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 4880.8 FPS -
API OpenCL -
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 969 -
DirectX 11 73 FPS -
DirectX 12 32 FPS -
GPU Compute 3714 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 737 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
274.57
Sources: Blender [9] – 20 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) 3202 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 5252 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9782 -
Face Detection (HP) 11315 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 30704 -
Text Classification (SP) 2351 -
Machine Translation (HP) 4339 -
Object Detection (SP) 2843 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 14243 -
Style Transfer (SP) 69169 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 880M and Nvidia N1X (40SM)

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 June 1, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Blackwell (N1x)
GPU Codename Strix Point GB20B
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130V - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 or above - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (18-Core) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 9 465
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
-
Laptop GPU ranking (#88th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1665 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2418 MHz
Shading Units 768 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 40
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 40
Tensor Cores No 160
Ray-tracing Cores 12 40
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 46 GPixel/s 97 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 139 GTexel/s 387 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.5 TFLOPS
N1X (40SM) +451%
24.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 15 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 173.6 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion -
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus - 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
273.2 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No 12.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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