AMD Radeon 890M vs Adreno X1-85

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AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 8 months older 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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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 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 54%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 28% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 76% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 24K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Has 50% more shading units (1536 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
-
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
-
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
-
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
-
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 -
1080p Ultra 29 -
1440p Ultra 19 -
4K Ultra 10 -
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
3186
Time Spy 3305 1695
Solar Bay 15412 10596
Port Royal 1795 -
Fire Strike 8908 6134
Wild Life Extreme 6884 6152
Night Raid 37640 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
42932
24387
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 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 890M +171%
8083
G2D Mark 979 518
DirectX 11 73 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 90 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
Radeon 890M +341%
9613
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M +368%
15157
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 890M +288%
7082
Image Classification (SP) 3563 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 3084
Face Detection (HP) 13773 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 7719
Text Classification (SP) 2572 292
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 1108
Object Detection (SP) 2845 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Strix Point Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - Radeon 8060S - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 475
- AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
- 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 (79th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 6
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 16 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 93 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.9 TFLOPS
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 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 None No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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