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AMD Radeon 890M vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Radeon 890M
VS
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 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

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 4070 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 4070 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 4.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 19 FPS
  • 3.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 2.7x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (115K vs 42K)
  • Has 4.5x more shading units (4608 vs 1024)
  • Features 144 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 4070 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
139
89
77
56
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
164
129
95
53
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
236
183
130
71
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
121
109
87
51
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
91
77
60
28
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
111
105
77
51
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
85
69
53
29
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
99
84
53
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
147
137
100
53
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 133
1080p Ultra 29 109
1440p Ultra 19 81
4K Ultra 10 46
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 4070 Laptop +300%
12736
Time Spy 3305 12514
Solar Bay 15412 54815
Port Royal 1795 7416
Fire Strike 8908 30057
Wild Life Extreme 6884 23262
Night Raid 37640 113672
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 4070 Laptop +168%
115081
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 158.5 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 116.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 5.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 6.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 528.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 16372.3 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 4070 Laptop +141%
19482
G2D Mark 979 766
DirectX 11 73 FPS 177 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 85 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 8365 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 13217 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 890M
302.04
RTX 4070 Laptop +1087%
3585.95
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 90 & 2189 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
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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 4070 Laptop +120%
21186
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M
15157
RTX 4070 Laptop +127%
34404
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 890M
7082
RTX 4070 Laptop +134%
16559
Image Classification (SP) 3563 8642
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 20635
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 26378
Face Detection (HP) 13773 39776
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 105983
Text Classification (SP) 2572 2995
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 4507
Object Detection (SP) 2845 10198
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 41078
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 190315
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released June 3, 2024 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Strix Point AD106 (GN21-X6)
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V -
Successor - Radeon 8060S - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 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 (78th and 22nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 735-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1230-2175 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 36
Tensor Cores No 144
Ray-tracing Cores 16 36
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 59-104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 177-313 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M
5.9 TFLOPS
RTX 4070 Laptop +239%
11.3-20 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 15 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 186 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion 22.9 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² 123.12 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 8 GB
Memory Clock - 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 16000 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA None 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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