Radeon 860M performing even worse than the Radeon 760M in our first benchmark results

AMD likes to boast about its flagship Radeon 890M GPU and rightfully so as it's one of the fastest integrated solutions currently available. Lesser options like the Radeon 860M, however, barely get any marketing recognition. We can certainly see why AMD might be sweeping this one under the rug after benchmarking our very first 860M laptop.

Based on our time with the Asus Vivobook 16 M1606K and its integrated Radeon 860M, the GPU is performing worse than the average Radeon 780M by 40 to 45 percent or roughly 25 to 30 percent slower than the Radeon 760M that it's supposed to be replacing as shown by our benchmark results below. Granted, this is only one sample of the 760M, but it's nonetheless a very poor first showing for what is supposed to be a midrange iGPU option from AMD's latest lineup of Ryzen AI CPUs.

There's no reason for the 860M to be performing slower than most 760M laptops when it is essentially a rebranded iGPU with the same number of unified pipelines and RT cores as the 760M. The Vivobook 16 may have just been underclocked in our example as it is an inexpensive budget model after all. Additional test samples are certainly needed to draw further conclusions. Until then, casual gamers hoping to get some decent performance from the Radeon 760M ought to be wary.