AMD Radeon 890M vs Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 3 years and 7 months older Apple M1 GPU (8-core) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 M1 GPU (8-core) over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 2.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 2.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 20K)

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 -
Solar Bay 15412 6317
Port Royal 1795 -
Fire Strike 8908 -
Wild Life Extreme 6884 4966
Night Raid 37640 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 890M +106%
42932
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 38.3 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 23 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 1.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 69.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 2766.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 979 -
DirectX 11 73 FPS -
DirectX 12 37 FPS -
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 2175 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
302.04
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 94 & 307 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 +193%
9613
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M +180%
15157
GB6 ML Quantized
7082
Image Classification (SP) 3563 1400
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 2280
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 3402
Face Detection (HP) 13773 5638
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 12027
Text Classification (SP) 2572 2324
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 4296
Object Detection (SP) 2845 1530
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 7675
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 17293
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML CPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 November 20, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Strix Point -
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Successor - Radeon 8060S - Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - Apple M1 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
- Apple M1
Laptop GPU ranking (80th and 105th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 450 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1278 MHz
Shading Units 1024 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 128
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 41 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 82 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M +127%
5.9 TFLOPS
2.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 233 mm² -
Transistor Count 34 billion 11.6 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 94°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 4266 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 8532 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.4 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 -
CUDA None -
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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