AMD’s upcoming mobile chips hinting a big performance gains, especially for gamers because the new Radeon 890M GPU is expected to provide a significant improvement over the 780M.
AMD’s most recent integrated GPU for the forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 series is the 890M. With 16 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units (CUs) operating at 2,900 MHz, it is impressive. By contrast, the previous version 780M, used in Ryzen mobile processors from both the 7000 and 8000 series, has 12 RDNA 3 CUs operating at 2,800 MHz. AMD has made significant progress in this area, as evidenced by the 890M’s specifications, which alone promise a significant boost in performance.
In recent benchmarks from GPD, posted on X by HXL, show notable performance gains with the 890M over the 780M. The results include the company’s new GPD Duo device, a small 2-in-1 laptop equipped with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.
The GPD Duo scores 4,221 on the 3DMark Time Spy test when running at 54W. In contrast, according to GPD’s benchmarks, the GPD Win Max 2, which is outfitted with the 780M, attains a score of 3,218. This shows a 31% improvement in performance with the 890M over the 780M.
| Model | Cores / Threads | Boost / Base Frequency | Total Cache | Graphics Model | TDP | NPU |
| AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | 12 / 24 | 5.1 GHz / 2.0 GHz | 36MB | AMD Radeon 890M Graphics | 15-54W | Yes (50 TOPs) |
| AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 | 10 / 20 | 5.0 GHz / 2.0GHz | 34MB | AMD Radeon 880M Graphics | 15-54W | Yes (50 TOPs) |
Furthermore, the 890M performs nearly as well as an RTX 3050 at 50W and beats a discrete RTX 2050, rated at 45W, which received a score of 3,769 in the same test. The fact that an integrated GPU (iGPU) with a shared power budget and memory competes with dedicated graphics chips is impressive, even though details about the devices housing these discrete GPUs are unclear.
A score of 3,180 was obtained from additional testing on the ROG Ally, which used a semi-custom Ryzen 7 7840U with the 780M at 30W. This demonstrates a significant 33% improvement in performance with the 890M.
Furthermore, the AMD Ryzen AI 300-series, which includes the Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores, performs admirably in Cinebench 2024 (R24). It obtains a multithreaded score of 1,525, which is similar to the Ryzen 9 5950X, and a single-threaded score of 124, which is identical to the Ryzen 9 7950X.
