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AMD Radeon 890M vs Adreno X2-90

Radeon 890M
VS
Adreno X2-90
AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
Adreno X2-90
Adreno X2

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 4 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 890M
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-90
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 29% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.6 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 2x more shading units (2048 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 890M
vs
Adreno X2-90

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
Radeon 890M
3186
Adreno X2-90 +61%
5142
Time Spy 3305 3782
Solar Bay 15412 24300
Port Royal 1795 1592
Fire Strike 8908 10039
Wild Life Extreme 6884 9890
Night Raid 37640 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 98.6 img/sec -
Face Detection 42 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 7757.7 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 890M +7%
8083
Adreno X2-90
7585
G2D Mark 979 592
DirectX 11 73 FPS 57 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 29 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 3638 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 61 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 90 samples
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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) 3563 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 -
Face Detection (HP) 13773 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 -
Text Classification (SP) 2572 -
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 -
Object Detection (SP) 2845 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 -
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Adreno X2-90

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Adreno X2
GPU Codename Strix Point Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V - Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
Successor - Radeon 8060S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) 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 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 (79th and 35th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1700-1850 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 12
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 109-118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 218-237 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M
5.9 TFLOPS
Adreno X2-90 +29%
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 890M
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 None No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
3 (30%)
7 (70%)
Total votes: 10

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