Radeon 890M vs Radeon 8060S

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 7 months newer Radeon 8060S that utilizes 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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 8060S over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 3.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 63 vs 19 FPS
  • 2.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 42K)
  • Has 2.5x more shading units (2560 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
135
79
62
40
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
124
104
70
37
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
195
137
95
50
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
108
95
69
40
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
74
59
46
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
97
90
60
37
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
80
65
43
25
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
75
65
39
17
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
132
116
79
37
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 113
1080p Ultra 29 90
1440p Ultra 19 63
4K Ultra 10 34
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 8060S +209%
9837
Time Spy 3305 10038
Solar Bay 15412 47180
Port Royal 1795 5546
Fire Strike 8908 26807
Wild Life Extreme 6884 19262
Night Raid 37640 101008
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
42932
Radeon 8060S +118%
93515
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 232.1 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 122.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 2.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 4.07 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 3.49 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 1.08 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 396.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 13016.5 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 8060S +123%
18059
G2D Mark 979 1171
DirectX 11 73 FPS 156 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 84 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 9032 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 1386 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
302.04
Radeon 8060S +351%
1363.24
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 94 & 129 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
Radeon 8060S +135%
22565
GB6 ML Half Precision
15157
30098
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 8060S +156%
18100
Image Classification (SP) 3563 11176
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 14027
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 27198
Face Detection (HP) 13773 40613
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 92878
Text Classification (SP) 2572 4158
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 6473
Object Detection (SP) 2845 7431
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 41825
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 190221
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Radeon 8060S

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 4060 Laptop
Successor - Radeon 8060S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 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+ 392
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395
Laptop GPU ranking (80th and 25th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2900 MHz
Shading Units 1024 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 40
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 40
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 186 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 464 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.9 TFLOPS
Radeon 8060S +151%
14.8 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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