AMD Radeon 890M vs Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 7 months newer Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) that utilizes 4 pipelines and 512 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 Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 2.6 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 85% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 23K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1024 vs 512)
Reasons to consider the Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Features 32 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

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 High

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
Time Spy 3305 -
Solar Bay 15412 -
Port Royal 1795 -
Fire Strike 8908 -
Wild Life Extreme 6884 -
Night Raid 37640 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 57.6 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 29.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 1.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 1.02 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 61.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 3352.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

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
Sources: Blender [9] – 90 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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3563 4265
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 11549
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 4466
Face Detection (HP) 13773 16012
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 8425
Text Classification (SP) 2572 1380
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 4037
Object Detection (SP) 2845 4026
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 10708
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 35823
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 January 5, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Celestial
GPU Codename Strix Point Panther Lake
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V -
Successor - Radeon 8060S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - Intel Core Ultra 9 386H 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 9 386H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 366H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 365
- Intel Core Ultra 7 356H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 355
- Intel Core Ultra 5 336H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 335
- Intel Core Ultra 5 325
Laptop GPU ranking (79th and 75th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 1024 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 4
Tensor Cores No 32
Ray-tracing Cores 16 4
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 40 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 80 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M +127%
5.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0
TGP 15 W 25 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 233 mm² -
Transistor Count 34 billion -
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
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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4 (66.7%)
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Total votes: 6

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