Radeon 890M vs Radeon 840M
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AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
AMD Radeon 840M
Krackan Point
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 7 months newer Radeon 840M that utilizes 4 pipelines and 256 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 3.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
- Shows 90% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 19 vs 10 FPS
- Achieves 3.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 14K)
- Has 4x more shading units (1024 vs 256)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 57 30 25 14 |
25 14 12 - |
| The Witcher 3 | 36 32 18 - |
11 12 - - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 51 34 25 10 |
27 20 14 - |
| Far Cry 6 | 43 37 23 13 |
21 17 12 - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 25 17 14 - |
11 - - - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 39 34 22 14 |
22 19 14 9 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 25 17 12 - |
13 10 - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 23 23 12 - |
10 10 - - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 43 34 21 10 |
16 18 11 - |
| 1080p High | 38 | 17 |
| 1080p Ultra | 29 | 14 |
| 1440p Ultra | 19 | 10 |
| 4K Ultra | 10 | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 3305 | 1699 |
| Solar Bay | 15412 | 6960 |
| Port Royal | 1795 | 553 |
| Fire Strike | 8908 | 5303 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 6884 | 2671 |
| Night Raid | 37640 | 22563 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 98.6 img/sec | 31.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 42 img/sec | 16.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.25 Gpixels/sec | 0.46 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.6 Gpixels/sec | 0.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.69 Gpixels/sec | 0.42 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.55 Gpixels/sec | 0.18 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 214.8 Gpixels/sec | 52.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7757.7 FPS | 2048.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 979 | 866 |
| DirectX 11 | 73 FPS | 32 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 37 FPS | 17 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 4162 Ops/s | 1689 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
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 | 1988 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 6170 | 2184 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 10762 | 4788 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 13773 | 6857 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 37861 | 17396 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2572 | 1628 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4699 | 2053 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 2845 | 1825 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 17260 | 8471 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 86751 | 31032 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Radeon 840MGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | June 3, 2024 | January 7, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | RDNA 3.5 |
| GPU Codename | Strix Point | Krackan Point |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140V | - Intel Arc 130T |
| Successor | - Radeon 8060S | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above | - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 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 7 345 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 430 - AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 435 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 440 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 |
Laptop GPU ranking (79th and 107th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 2900 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 256 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 16 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 8 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 4 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | 4 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 1MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 93 GPixel/s | 23 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 186 GTexel/s | 46 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 233 mm² | 195 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 |
| 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 | 2.1 |
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