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AMD Radeon 890M vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Radeon 890M
VS
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
GA107

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 3 years and 6 months older GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (1)

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 RTX 3050 Mobile over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 54%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Shows 68% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 32 vs 19 FPS
  • 20% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.1 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 37% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (58K vs 42K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (2048 vs 1024)
  • Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 890M
vs
RTX 3050 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
75
44
34
21
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
68
53
38
20
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
115
80
54
23
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
60
52
40
17
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
37
28
23
12
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
48
37
27
16
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
37
28
18
10
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
36
35
19
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
66
62
39
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 60
1080p Ultra 29 47
1440p Ultra 19 32
4K Ultra 10 16
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
RTX 3050 Laptop +54%
4911
Time Spy 3305 4884
Solar Bay 15412 21596
Port Royal 1795 552
Fire Strike 8908 12571
Wild Life Extreme 6884 9400
Night Raid 37640 53685
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 890M
42932
RTX 3050 Laptop +37%
58733
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 88.6 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 57.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 3.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 2.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 256.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 7465.5 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
Radeon 890M
8083
RTX 3050 Laptop +18%
9506
G2D Mark 979 493
DirectX 11 73 FPS 71 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 46 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 3868 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 20037 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 890M
302.04
RTX 3050 Laptop +282%
1154.04
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 94 & 1497 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 890M
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GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
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📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer)Geekbench 6 OpenCL61418
📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer)Cinebench 20243654
📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_AggarwalSteel Nomad Light5735
📘 2026-01-26 (rar)Geekbench 6 OpenCL68364
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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
Radeon 890M
9613
RTX 3050 Laptop +4%
10038
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M
15157
RTX 3050 Laptop +26%
19152
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3563 4349
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 11416
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 8973
Face Detection (HP) 13773 18927
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 34631
Text Classification (SP) 2572 2269
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 3539
Object Detection (SP) 2845 5046
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 15772
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 75260
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released June 3, 2024 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Ampere
GPU Codename Strix Point GA107
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V -
Successor - Radeon 8060S - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 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		 -
Laptop GPU ranking (80th and 93rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 712-1530 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1057-1740 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 40
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 16
Tensor Cores No 64
Ray-tracing Cores 16 16
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 42-70 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 68-111 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M
5.9 TFLOPS
RTX 3050 Laptop +20%
4.3-7.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 15 W 35-95 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion 8.7 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² 43.5 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 4 GB
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA None 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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LaptopDealsEU October 25, 2024 at 07:29 AM
The RTX 3050 is obviously more efficient. Especially those refreshed models with 6GB vRAM. Nevertheless, the 890M is a powerful iGPU and is quietly enough to play less demanding games on high settings like League Of Legends.
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