AMD Radeon 890M vs Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
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AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 6 months older Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- 23% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 4.8 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 43% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 30K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 57 30 25 14 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 36 32 18 - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 51 34 25 10 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 43 37 23 13 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 25 17 14 - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 39 34 22 14 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 25 17 12 - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 23 23 12 - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 43 34 21 10 |
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| 1080p High | 38 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 29 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 19 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 10 | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 3305 | - |
| Solar Bay | 15412 | - |
| Port Royal | 1795 | - |
| Fire Strike | 8908 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 6884 | - |
| Night Raid | 37640 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 98.6 img/sec | 66.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 42 img/sec | 28.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.25 Gpixels/sec | 0.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.6 Gpixels/sec | 1.24 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.69 Gpixels/sec | 1.82 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.55 Gpixels/sec | 0.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 214.8 Gpixels/sec | 102.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7757.7 FPS | 6543.8 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 979 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 73 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 37 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 4162 Ops/s | - |
Recent User Tests
Radeon 890M
No benchmark results yet
Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-02-22 (Catt) | Steel Nomad Light | 2669 |
| 📘 2026-01-15 (Ak-Dev) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 64108 |
| 📘 2025-11-08 (Anuj) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 35379 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 3563 | 2540 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 6170 | 7387 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 10762 | 4047 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 13773 | 8563 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 37861 | 11171 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2572 | 819 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4699 | 2228 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 2845 | 2725 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 17260 | 7794 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 86751 | 34572 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)General
| Vendor | Amd | Intel |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | June 3, 2024 | December 14, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Xe LPG |
| GPU Codename | Strix Point | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140V | - Radeon 760M |
| Successor | - Radeon 8060S | - Intel Arc 140V |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 135H 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 |
- Intel Core Ultra 5 135H - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H |
Laptop GPU ranking (80th and 86th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 2200-2350 MHz (configurable) |
| 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 | 8 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 1536KB shared |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 93 GPixel/s | 70-75 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 186 GTexel/s | 141-150 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Ring Bus |
| TGP | 15 W | 28 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 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 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | None | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 2.1 |
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