AMD Radeon 890M vs Nvidia N1X (40SM)
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AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
Nvidia N1X (40SM)
GB20B
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month newer Nvidia N1X (40SM) that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1X (40SM) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1X (40SM)
- 4.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (24.8 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Has 5x more shading units (5120 vs 1024)
- Features 160 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
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 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 98.6 img/sec | - |
| Face Detection | 42 img/sec | - |
| Horizon Detection | 1.25 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Edge Detection | 1.6 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.69 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Feature Matching | 0.55 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Stereo Matching | 214.8 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Particle Physics | 7757.7 FPS | - |
| API | OpenCL | - |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 979 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 73 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 37 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 4162 Ops/s | - |
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 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 6170 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 10762 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 13773 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 37861 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2572 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4699 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 2845 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 17260 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 86751 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Nvidia N1X (40SM)General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | June 3, 2024 | June 1, 2026 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Blackwell (N1x) |
| GPU Codename | Strix Point | GB20B |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140V | - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) |
| Successor | - Radeon 8060S | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above | - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (18-Core) 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 |
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Laptop GPU ranking (#80th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 1665 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 2418 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 40 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 40 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 160 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 24MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 93 GPixel/s | 97 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 186 GTexel/s | 387 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 233 mm² | 173.6 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 34 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 145.92 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Bus | - | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | None | 12.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | - |
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