Benchmarks of AMD's fastest iGPU to date, the Radeon 890M with RDNA 3.5 architecture, have leaked & it outperforms several entry-level dGPUs.
The End of Entry-Level Discrete GPUs Might Be Close: AMD Radeon 890M "RDNA 3.5" iGPU Easily Outperforms RX 6400, RX 580, RTX 3050 & Arc A380 In Leaked Benchmarks
The AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture will make its formal debut with the Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs later this month. This integrated GPU will initially come in two flavors, the Radeon 890M and the Radeon 880M. The former features 16 compute units clocked at up to 2900 MHz & the latter features 12 compute units clocked at 2900 MHz too. Officially, AMD has disclosed up to 47% faster graphics performance than the competition (Intel Meteor Lake) but it looks like these iGPUs pose a major threat to the entry-level discrete graphics segment as showcased in leaked benchmarks.
The latest benchmarks come from Geekbench 6 in the Vulkan and OpenCL graphics tests. The laptop that was benchmarked is the ASUS ProArt P16 which was configured with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU, which we recently covered here and showcases some strong single-thread & multi-thread performance. The laptop is configured with 32 GB of LPDDR5-7467 MT/s memory & was using the "Performance" mode.
AMD Ryzen AI "HX" APUs:
| CPU Name | Architecture | Cores / Threads | Clock Speeds (Max) | Cache (Total) | AI Capabilities | iGPU | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 | Zen 5 / Zen 5C | 12/24 | 2.0 / 5.1 GHz | 36 MB / 24 MB L3 | 85 AI TOPs (55 TOPS NPU) | Radeon 890M (16 CU @ 2.9 GHz) | 28W (cTDP 15-54W) |
| Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Zen 5 / Zen 5C | 12/24 | 2.0 / 5.1 GHz | 36 MB / 24 MB L3 | 80 AI TOPs (50 TOPS NPU) | Radeon 890M (16 CU @ 2.9 GHz) | 28W (cTDP 15-54W) |
| Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 | Zen 5 / Zen 5C | 12/24 | 2.0 / 5.1 GHz | 36 MB / 24 MB L3 | 80 AI TOPs (50 TOPS NPU) | Radeon 890M (16 CU @ 2.9 GHz) | 28W (cTDP 15-54W) |
| Ryzen AI 7 365 | Zen 5 / Zen 5C | 10/20 | 2.0 / 5.0 GHz | 30 MB / 20 MB L3 | 80 AI TOPs (50 TOPS NPU) | Radeon 880M (12 CU @ 2.9 GHz) | 28W (cTDP 15-54W) |
| Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 | Zen 5 / Zen 5C | 8/16 | 2.0 / 5.0 GHz | 24 MB / 16 MB L3 | TBD | Radeon 880M (12 CU @ TBD GHz) | 28W (cTDP 15-54W) |
| Ryzen AI 7 HX 350? | Zen 5 / Zen 5C | 8/16 | TBD | 24 MB / 16 MB L3 | TBD | TBD | 28W (cTDP 15-54W) |
| Ryzen A 5 HX 330? | Zen 5 / Zen 5C | 6/12 | TBD | 20 MB / 12 MB L3 | TBD | TBD | 28W (cTDP 15-54W) |
As for the performance, the AMD Radeon 890M "RDNA 3.5" iGPU scored 46,298 points in the Vulkan test and 42,932 points in the OpenCL tests. Following is how the iGPU stacks up against a range of current-gen iGPUs and discrete GPUs:
Geekbench 6 Vulkan (Higher is Better)
Geekbench 6 OpenCL (Higher is Better)
Just comparing the AMD Radeon 890M "RDNA 3.5" iGPU to the last-gen Radeon 780M "RDNA 3" iGPU, you are looking at a 46% uplift in Vulkan and 38% uplift in the OpenCL tests. The iGPU also sits comfortably ahead of many discrete GPUs such as the RTX 3050 4 GB, RX 6400 and Arc A380. The same is the case with the OpenCL tests where the iGPU sits ahead of several discrete GPUs while consuming much lower power within the Strix Point power limits.
This shows us that the entry-level discrete graphics market will no longer be seen as an attractive proposition when you can get similar performance from iGPUs without the need to use the extra power that discrete graphics chips consume. And this is only the 16 compute unit SKU, with AMD Strix Halo APUs, the red team is expected to offer up to 40 compute units which will make for a truly competitive graphics solution against the mainstream discrete GPU segment. The only iGPU competitor against AMD's RDNA 3.5 will be Intel's Arc "Xe2" series which will also debut with the Lunar Lake CPUs.
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