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Radeon 890M vs Radeon 860M

Radeon 890M
VS
Radeon 860M
AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 7 months newer Radeon 860M that utilizes 8 pipelines and 512 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 860M over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 45%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 90% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 3.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 36% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 19 vs 14 FPS
  • Achieves 87% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 22K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1024 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 890M
vs
Radeon 860M

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
41
24
20
11
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
19
18
11
-
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
39
26
19
9
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
31
26
16
9
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
16
12
10
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
28
27
17
12
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
16
12
9
-
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
19
13
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
29
22
15
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 26
1080p Ultra 29 20
1440p Ultra 19 14
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 +45%
3186
Radeon 860M
2191
Time Spy 3305 2604
Solar Bay 15412 11094
Port Royal 1795 1046
Fire Strike 8908 6772
Wild Life Extreme 6884 5124
Night Raid 37640 29064
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 890M +87%
42932
Radeon 860M
22911
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 57.2 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 30.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 0.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 0.93 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.35 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 97.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 3933.5 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 890M +66%
8083
Radeon 860M
4873
G2D Mark 979 918
DirectX 11 73 FPS 37 FPS
DirectX 12 37 FPS 25 FPS
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s 2434 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2175 & 2139 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 890M +52%
302.04
Radeon 860M
198.36
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 90 & 32 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 890M
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Radeon 860M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer)Geekbench 6 OpenCL24017
📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer)Steel Nomad Light2476
📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36Geekbench 6 OpenCL24971
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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 +38%
9613
Radeon 860M
6947
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M +47%
15157
Radeon 860M
10338
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 890M +33%
7082
Radeon 860M
5334
Image Classification (SP) 3563 2022
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 3987
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 6657
Face Detection (HP) 13773 10337
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 28437
Text Classification (SP) 2572 2326
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 4011
Object Detection (SP) 2845 1995
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 12031
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 56710
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Radeon 860M

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 Krackan Point
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V - Intel Arc 140T
Successor - Radeon 8060S - Radeon 8040S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 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 7 450
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 350
Laptop GPU ranking (79th and 100th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 600 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 3000 MHz
Shading Units 1024 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 8
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 8
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 48 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 96 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M +90%
5.9 TFLOPS
Radeon 860M
3.1 TFLOPS

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 233 mm²
Transistor Count 34 billion 34 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² 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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