AMD Radeon 890M performs on par with entry-level Ampere dGPU in Geekbench
AMD just showed off some new Strix Point benchmarks and tacitly confirmed a July 28 launch date for its newest laptop platform. While first-party data is usually designed to paint a rosy picture, leaked benchmarks have confirmed the Zen 5 + RDNA 3.5 Strix Point combo packs a punch. Now, we get to see the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370's Radeon 890M iGPU in action.
It scores 46,298 in Geekbench 6.3's Vulkan benchmark, putting it on par with the base (4 GB VRAM) GeForce RTX 3050 (39,691 average) laptop variant. In OpenCL, it scores 42,923 points; not quite on par with the RTX 3050, but impressive nonetheless. So far, the Radeon 890M's performance delivered dGPU-class performance, and it will only get better with subsequent revisions/driver updates. Furthermore, Geekbench says this test rig is running 1,868 MT/s memory, which is awfully slow for DDR5.
Earlier today, AMD said RDNA 3.5 is roughly 32% faster than RDNA 3 at 15 Watts. While it is impossible to determine the Radeon 890M's wattage in this particular Geekbench run, it is definitely more than 32% faster than the last-gen Radeon 780M (28,878 average) in the same test. Of course, the real-world gains could be a lot more tepid, but the generation-over-generation gains are nothing to scoff at.
Meanwhile, Intel's Arc 140V Xe2 Battlemage GPU scored 34,181 points in the same benchmark. While it isn't the top-spec iGPU, Lunar Lake is unlikely to beat AMD in raw performance this generation. However, Team Blue can snag the "best performance-per-watt"crown over AMD and Qualcomm this time.
