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Radeon 890M vs Radeon 8050S

Radeon 890M
VS
Radeon 8050S
AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
AMD Radeon 8050S
Strix Halo

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 8 months newer Radeon 8050S that utilizes 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  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 Radeon 8050S over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.7x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 19 FPS
  • 95% higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 89% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 42K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (2048 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 890M
vs
Radeon 8050S

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
127
68
59
38
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
113
94
60
33
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
178
124
88
47
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
98
89
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
65
57
40
21
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
89
81
54
35
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
71
58
41
19
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
67
60
33
17
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
118
103
71
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 103
1080p Ultra 29 82
1440p Ultra 19 57
4K Ultra 10 31
Margin of Error Low Medium

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
Radeon 8050S +167%
8517
Time Spy 3305 9171
Solar Bay 15412 41110
Port Royal 1795 5181
Fire Strike 8908 24607
Wild Life Extreme 6884 18225
Night Raid 37640 98347
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
Radeon 8050S +89%
81081
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 201.1 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 104.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 3.37 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 3.12 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.93 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 327.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 12215.6 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
8083
Radeon 8050S +104%
16451
G2D Mark 979 1125
DirectX 11 73 FPS 149 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 70 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 7622 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 203 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 890M
302.04
Radeon 8050S +294%
1188.98
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 94 & 3 samples
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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
Radeon 8050S +89%
18145
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M
15157
Radeon 8050S +46%
22099
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 890M
7082
Radeon 8050S +110%
14884
Image Classification (SP) 3563 9259
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 11219
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 19775
Face Detection (HP) 13773 31987
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 62399
Text Classification (SP) 2572 3757
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 6121
Object Detection (SP) 2845 6979
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 35735
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 129996
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Radeon 8050S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Strix Point Strix Halo
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
Successor - Radeon 8060S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 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 AI Max 485
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 490
- AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 485
- AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 490
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
Laptop GPU ranking (80th and 37th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 1024 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 32
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 179 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 358 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M
5.9 TFLOPS
Radeon 8050S +95%
11.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 15 W 55 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 233 mm² 308 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 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
CUDA None No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1a

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Total votes: 17

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