Radeon 890M vs Radeon 610M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 9 months older Radeon 610M that utilizes 2 pipelines and 128 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 Radeon 610M over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 7.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 9.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 3.8x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 19 vs 5 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 8.4x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 5K)
  • Has 8x more shading units (1024 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
11
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
16
11
-
-
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
9
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
13
11
9
-
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
-
9
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 9
1080p Ultra 29 -
1440p Ultra 19 -
4K Ultra 10 -
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 +614%
3186
Time Spy 3305 519
Solar Bay 15412 2068
Port Royal 1795 291
Fire Strike 8908 1745
Wild Life Extreme 6884 998
Night Raid 37640 7335
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 890M +742%
42932
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 12 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 6.42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 18.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 828.6 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
Radeon 890M +349%
8083
G2D Mark 979 535
DirectX 11 73 FPS 17 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 7 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 768 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 194 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 890M +525%
302.04
48.33
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 90 & 43 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 890M
No benchmark results yet
Radeon 610M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-05 (StarSophia)Steel Nomad Light614

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 +401%
9613
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M +638%
15157
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 890M +351%
7082
Image Classification (SP) 3563 660
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 627
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 2053
Face Detection (HP) 13773 2153
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 5787
Text Classification (SP) 2572 713
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 1114
Object Detection (SP) 2845 709
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 3233
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 11091
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Radeon 610M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 October 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Strix Point Mendocino
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V -
Successor - Radeon 8060S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U 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
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
- AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
- AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
- and 6 more
Laptop GPU ranking (79th and 125th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1900-2200 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 2
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 16 2
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 8-9 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 15-18 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M +883%
5.9 TFLOPS
0.5-0.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 6 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 122 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion 3.4 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² 27.87 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
CUDA None -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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