Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Radeon 890M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 6 years and 5 months newer Radeon 890M that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 Radeon 890M over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.9 vs 2.2 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.1x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 19 vs 9 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 4.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 10K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1024 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
57
30
25
14
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
36
32
18
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
51
34
25
10
Far Cry 6
20
17
10
-
43
37
23
13
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
25
17
14
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
17
14
-
39
34
22
14
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
25
17
12
-
Cyberpunk 2077
-
-
-
-
23
23
12
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14
13
10
-
43
34
21
10
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 16 38
1080p Ultra 12 29
1440p Ultra 9 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
1261
Radeon 890M +153%
3186
Time Spy 1410 3305
Solar Bay - 15412
Port Royal - 1795
Fire Strike 4497 8908
Wild Life Extreme 2532 6884
Night Raid 18010 37640
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
10472
Radeon 890M +310%
42932
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 98.6 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 1.6 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 1.69 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.55 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 214.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 7757.7 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
1562
Radeon 890M +417%
8083
G2D Mark 398 979
DirectX 11 10 FPS 73 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 37 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 4162 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 10003 & 2175 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
n/a
302.04
Sources: Blender [9] – 94 samples

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
2257
Radeon 890M +326%
9613
GB6 ML Half Precision
2817
Radeon 890M +438%
15157
GB6 ML Quantized
1643
Radeon 890M +331%
7082
Image Classification (SP) 924 3563
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 6170
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 10762
Face Detection (HP) 2819 13773
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 37861
Text Classification (SP) 832 2572
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 4699
Object Detection (SP) 1040 2845
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 17260
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 86751
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Radeon 890M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 June 3, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture GCN 5.0 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Raven Strix Point
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Arc 140V
Successor - - Radeon 8060S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5825U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
- AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS
- AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
- and 8 more
- 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
Laptop GPU ranking (127th and 80th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 2900 MHz
Shading Units 512 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 16
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No 16
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-17 GPixel/s 93 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 186 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
Radeon 890M +168%
5.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 25 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
Die Size 210 mm² 233 mm²
Transistor Count 4.94 billion 34 billion
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² 145.92 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent -
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent -
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent -
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
CUDA - None
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 2.1

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