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AMD Radeon 890M vs Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

Radeon 890M
VS
Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
AMD Radeon 890M
Strix Point
Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 890M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 2 years older Apple M2 GPU (8-core) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of M2 GPU (8-core) over Radeon 890M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Performs better (up to 38%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 2.9 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 45% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 29K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 890M
vs
M2 GPU (8-core)

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
57
30
25
14
 -
The Witcher 3
36
32
18
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
51
34
25
10
 -
Far Cry 6
43
37
23
13
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
25
17
14
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
39
34
22
14
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
25
17
12
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
23
23
12
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
43
34
21
10
 -
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 38 -
1080p Ultra 29 -
1440p Ultra 19 -
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 +38%
3186
M2 GPU (8-core)
2317
Time Spy 3305 -
Solar Bay 15412 7316
Port Royal 1795 -
Fire Strike 8908 -
Wild Life Extreme 6884 5676
Night Raid 37640 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 890M +45%
42932
M2 GPU (8-core)
29705
Background Blur 98.6 img/sec 58.7 img/sec
Face Detection 42 img/sec 35.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.6 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.69 Gpixels/sec 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.55 Gpixels/sec 0.37 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 214.8 Gpixels/sec 96 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7757.7 FPS 3825.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 979 -
DirectX 11 73 FPS -
DirectX 12 37 FPS -
GPU Compute 4162 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 2175 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 94 & 83 samples
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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 +55%
9613
M2 GPU (8-core)
6206
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 890M +120%
15157
M2 GPU (8-core)
6893
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3563 3242
Image Segmentation (HP) 6170 4890
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10762 7149
Face Detection (HP) 13773 10340
Pose Estimation (Q) 37861 21268
Text Classification (SP) 2572 2268
Machine Translation (HP) 4699 1122
Object Detection (SP) 2845 3007
Depth Estimation (Q) 17260 13941
Style Transfer (SP) 86751 35943
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 890M and Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 June 6, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Strix Point -
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140V -
Successor - Radeon 8060S - Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above - Apple M2 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		 - Apple M2
Laptop GPU ranking (80th and 90th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1398 MHz
Shading Units 1024 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 128
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 16 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 93 GPixel/s 45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 186 GTexel/s 89 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 890M +103%
5.9 TFLOPS
M2 GPU (8-core)
2.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 233 mm² -
Transistor Count 34 billion 11.6 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 94°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 6400 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12800 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Radeon 890M
n/a
M2 GPU (8-core)
102.4 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.4 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 -
CUDA None -
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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