Testing the AMD Radeon RX 890M GPU: A Comparative Analysis with Older Models

I was excited to test the AMD Radeon RX 890M GPU, and I couldn't wait to see how it would perform compared to older models. I started by testing Horizon Forbidden West on high settings, using the integrated GPU (IGPU) in my system. To my surprise, the game ran at a constant 58 FPS, regardless of any adjustments I made to the graphics settings or power management. This was a clear indication that there might be an issue with the driver or my game capture software.

I decided to reset the graphics settings to their lowest values and re-run the game. However, even after doing so, the average frame rate remained stuck at 58 FPS. I was disappointed that we couldn't achieve better performance with this powerful GPU. To put things into perspective, I've run Horizon Forbidden West on older models like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M and AMD Radeon RX 790M, which were able to maintain an average of 128 FPS and 93 FPS, respectively, at high graphics settings. These results suggest that there might be a bug or issue with the driver.

In an attempt to improve performance, I decided to switch to 1080p low settings and enable FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution). To my surprise, this allowed me to achieve an average frame rate of around 73 FPS at 1080p high settings. However, it's worth noting that this was only possible when using AMD's Frame Gen technology, which is built into the game. I couldn't achieve similar performance with NVIDIA's GeForce driver or other third-party applications.

I also ran a built-in benchmark for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III on 1080p balanced graphics settings, using the same IGPU and AMD's Frame Gen technology. The results were impressive, with an average frame rate of around 92 FPS. This was a significant improvement over the older RX 790M GPU, which struggled to maintain a consistent frame rate at high graphics settings.

I'm curious to know what might be causing these differences in performance between the RX 890M and older models. Is it due to improved driver technology or changes in game engine optimization? I also wonder if we'll see this IGPU integrated into upcoming handheld devices. While AMD's decision to use a Zen 5C-based GPU in the original Ryzen 7900HX chip was likely made for power efficiency, I think it's possible that they could re-design the GPU architecture to be more powerful while still keeping power consumption under control.

I'd love to hear from our readers and know what you think about these results. Would a handheld device with this IGPU be enough to justify purchasing a new device, or would you prefer something more powerful? Let me know in the comments below! I'll be doing some additional testing with third-party applications to further optimize performance, but for now, it's clear that the RX 890M has some impressive capabilities.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be testing out amd's most powerful igpu today the radon 890m now if you're not familiar with this new igpu that's totally fine it was actually just released a few days ago at the time of making this video but basically what we've got here at least on paper amd's fastest eye GPU it's based on rdna 3.5 we've got 16 cus up from the old 7 adm's 12 cus and a clock up to 2900 MHz and these new integrated Graphics are actually available in two of amd's brand new ryzen AI chips the AI 9 HX 370 or the AI 9 HX 375 got the ai9 HX 370 here in the brand new Asus Pro art 13 which is definitely turning out to be one of my favorite laptops right now I will have a full review on this coming up but this is packing the ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and with this we get 12 cores 24 threads they have set these New Zen 5 chips up a bit different we are working with some efficiency cores known as Zen 5c cores so we've got eight of those four regular Zen 5 cores up to 5.1 GHz but the most exciting thing here and what we're here to test is the new AMD radon 890 Mii GPU this is based on rdna 3.5 we've got 16 compute units and it clocks up to 2900 MHz along with this it's paired up with 32 gigs of LP ddr5x running at 7500 MHz and I've got got a lot to test here we're going to run some benchmarks and kind of compare this to the older radon 78m so let's go ahead and get into it okay jumping right into it as you can see we've got that new ryzen ai9 HX 370 with Radeon 890m graphics 32 gigs of ddr5 at 7500 MHz and I've allocated 8 gigs specifically for this new igpu now again we've got 16 cus here so 16 compute units versus the older 780m 12 this will require a little more power and I've done some testing so far in another video we were at 28 Watts with a boost up to around 32 in this one we're going to be taking that wattage way up there are diminishing returns but at the time of making this video we don't really have any way to kind of tune and tweak this GPU right now so I can't specifically set clocks on it or anything like that so we're going to take that TDP up as high as we can go that way we can get the maximum clocks out of both of these now I'm sure with the performance we're going to be seeing in this video down the road just a bit we're going to be able to get the same kind of performance at a lower TDP but again right now there's really no way to kind of modify what's going on here with this new 890m from gpus we'll run a quick render test and this does go up to 2900 MHz you can see GPU power draw now this is actually combined with the CPU so it's not specifically just that igpu I'd say in total at 100% utilization this GPU could probably pull around 38 Watts so let's just say I've got this system right now set at a 28 watt TDP it's really going to have to divide all that power up between the CPU and igpu so in order for me to up the TDP on this system I'm actually going to be using GH helper this is a really awesome application for these Asus devices fans and power from here we can go up to 75 but unfortunately bios won't let us go all the way up to 75 continuously even though you know we've got the spt here and the fppt up to 75 really I can get a continuous 70 Watts out of this system the way it is right now which is more than enough and again there are diminishing returns with this igpu but there's really no way to tweak and tune those clocks right now on the 890m I've tried a bunch of different applications and there's not much that I can do here except for take the total TDP up to get those higher clocks so with that out of the way now it's time to get into some testing and the first thing I did here was run some benchmarks first thing we've got here is geekbench 6 using their opencl Benchmark we scored a 43744 and if you take a look over here with that Radeon 78m which was the last generation with 12 cus that one's coming in at 31,000 so just from that open CL Benchmark we've definitely got a jump over that 780m but just to give you an idea here we're sitting somewhere in between the Radeon RX 5500 and the GeForce GT X 1070 right here with the opencl benchmark scores that they've got over on geekbench 6's website Next Up 3D Mark night raid coming in a little over 35,000 and the highest score I've ever been able to get out of the Radeon 78m was actually with the AMD ryzen 788 45 HS and with that we scored a 3,336 so again nice little bump here in synthetics with fire strike we got a 9,072 and the final one I ran here was time spy and we actually broke 4,000 with this Radeon I GPU 4,14 and one of the highest scores I was able to get out of that 780m was 3,351 so yeah looking pretty decent with these synthetics but now it's time to get into some real world gaming and see what this thing can really do first one we have here is cyberpunk 2077 take a look in the top leftand Corner we've got After Burner running you can see at the very bottom there our CPU package power is right there at 70 W of course this is overkill for a mobile device but you know I'm actually really excited about seeing this in Min PCS down the road but with cyberpunk 2077 1080p low FSR set to Performance we usually get an average with the Radeon 780m of around 72 with this system we actually managed to get an average of 92 FPS which is really impressive for an igpu that's a pretty good hike over the 780m but another thing we got to keep in mind is the CPU side of this thing is actually based on Zen 5 so we are getting better performance there also either way coming out with a 92 FPS average with cyberpunk 277 on an igpu is pretty amazing next up we've got the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p low and of course we could be testing all of this at Ultra but it's still an igp at the end of the day you really do have to lower those settings down to get the maximum FPS out of it we definitely wanted to keep that 1080p resolution and at the end of this we had an average of 87 I also wanted to test out one of my favorite games and you might notice up in the top leftand corner it's locked right there at 58 FPS I'm not sure if this is a bug with the driver or my game capture or something weird going on I know for a fact that we could run this game at a constant 60 just taking a look at the way everything's going unfortunately it was just sitting right there at 58 no matter what I did tried resetting it going down the low just to make sure but right now we're at 1080 High settings here's Horizon forbidden West and no matter what igpu I've run this on we never saw a great performance until now 1080p low settings FSR is set to Balan and we are using amd's frame gen from the settings that's really the only way we can get this over 60 in an igpu at 1080 of course dropping it down to 900p will net us a lot more but at 1080 with these settings we're seeing an average of 73 FPS I don't personally play fortnite but I still wanted to throw it in here and I actually thought we'd see a little better performance out of this we're at 1080 High settings with no scaling so we're at a true 1080p here we're looking at an average of around 79 FPS I mean it's definitely playable but again and I really thought we'd see better performance out of this game going back a bit to GTA 5 we're at 1080p high normal settings this was basically how it was out of the box when I booted the game up we're looking at an average of around 128 FPS and I've extensively tested this game on the 78m with the same exact settings here kind of went into everything with exactly how I test on the 780m on most of those systems with 6400 MHz Ram at around 65 Watts we're only seeing an average of around 93 FPS so we've got a really nice jump when it comes to this older game and so far with everything I've tested on the 890m we've been seeing some pretty decent performance so the next one I wanted to go with was the built-in Benchmark for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 1080p balanced AMD frame gen on by the end of this we did see a pretty decent average FPS here and a pretty good 1% low average of 125 FPS and our 1% low was 63 but this isn't a massive jump over the 780m at those higher wattages I kind of expected to see a bit more and with this last one we're also going to be using amd's frame gem because it is built into the game something I personally like on these little igpus no FSR we're just using frame gem by the end of my run here we had an average of 92 FPS so there's no doubt that the new AMD Radeon 890m can outperform the 780m even at lower wattages it definitely outperforms it we've got 16 cus and the architecture is based on rdna 3.5 will we see this igpu in an upcoming handal device personally I do think so but it's not going to be in the same Apu package because what we've got here is the AMD ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12 course 24 threads AI doesn't make a lot of sense for handhelds and they knew that with the ryzen Z1 extreme and with that chip they cut out the AI engine kept the same rdna 3 based igpu it is the 78m they just didn't call it a 78m in that and you know they kind of rebranded the chip with the new chip specifically for powerful handheld devices I think they've learned a lot from the original and with these new Zen 5c cores I think we could get by with another 8 core 16 thread Apu with this 890m ipu so we'd have four of those Zen 5c cores which are lower powered cores but they still perform pretty pretty decently keeping the overall power draw down on the CPU allowing more for that GPU but at the time of making this video nothing's been officially announced I'd still love to know your thoughts in the comments below I mean do you think this is a big enough jump over the uh 78m to add to a handheld would it get you to buy it or would you wait it out for something a bit more powerful let me know in the comments and I will have some more testing coming up with these igpus still waiting on a few third-party applications to be fully compatible so we can really tweak and tune this thing but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching let me know your thoughts in the comments below like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be testing out amd's most powerful igpu today the radon 890m now if you're not familiar with this new igpu that's totally fine it was actually just released a few days ago at the time of making this video but basically what we've got here at least on paper amd's fastest eye GPU it's based on rdna 3.5 we've got 16 cus up from the old 7 adm's 12 cus and a clock up to 2900 MHz and these new integrated Graphics are actually available in two of amd's brand new ryzen AI chips the AI 9 HX 370 or the AI 9 HX 375 got the ai9 HX 370 here in the brand new Asus Pro art 13 which is definitely turning out to be one of my favorite laptops right now I will have a full review on this coming up but this is packing the ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and with this we get 12 cores 24 threads they have set these New Zen 5 chips up a bit different we are working with some efficiency cores known as Zen 5c cores so we've got eight of those four regular Zen 5 cores up to 5.1 GHz but the most exciting thing here and what we're here to test is the new AMD radon 890 Mii GPU this is based on rdna 3.5 we've got 16 compute units and it clocks up to 2900 MHz along with this it's paired up with 32 gigs of LP ddr5x running at 7500 MHz and I've got got a lot to test here we're going to run some benchmarks and kind of compare this to the older radon 78m so let's go ahead and get into it okay jumping right into it as you can see we've got that new ryzen ai9 HX 370 with Radeon 890m graphics 32 gigs of ddr5 at 7500 MHz and I've allocated 8 gigs specifically for this new igpu now again we've got 16 cus here so 16 compute units versus the older 780m 12 this will require a little more power and I've done some testing so far in another video we were at 28 Watts with a boost up to around 32 in this one we're going to be taking that wattage way up there are diminishing returns but at the time of making this video we don't really have any way to kind of tune and tweak this GPU right now so I can't specifically set clocks on it or anything like that so we're going to take that TDP up as high as we can go that way we can get the maximum clocks out of both of these now I'm sure with the performance we're going to be seeing in this video down the road just a bit we're going to be able to get the same kind of performance at a lower TDP but again right now there's really no way to kind of modify what's going on here with this new 890m from gpus we'll run a quick render test and this does go up to 2900 MHz you can see GPU power draw now this is actually combined with the CPU so it's not specifically just that igpu I'd say in total at 100% utilization this GPU could probably pull around 38 Watts so let's just say I've got this system right now set at a 28 watt TDP it's really going to have to divide all that power up between the CPU and igpu so in order for me to up the TDP on this system I'm actually going to be using GH helper this is a really awesome application for these Asus devices fans and power from here we can go up to 75 but unfortunately bios won't let us go all the way up to 75 continuously even though you know we've got the spt here and the fppt up to 75 really I can get a continuous 70 Watts out of this system the way it is right now which is more than enough and again there are diminishing returns with this igpu but there's really no way to tweak and tune those clocks right now on the 890m I've tried a bunch of different applications and there's not much that I can do here except for take the total TDP up to get those higher clocks so with that out of the way now it's time to get into some testing and the first thing I did here was run some benchmarks first thing we've got here is geekbench 6 using their opencl Benchmark we scored a 43744 and if you take a look over here with that Radeon 78m which was the last generation with 12 cus that one's coming in at 31,000 so just from that open CL Benchmark we've definitely got a jump over that 780m but just to give you an idea here we're sitting somewhere in between the Radeon RX 5500 and the GeForce GT X 1070 right here with the opencl benchmark scores that they've got over on geekbench 6's website Next Up 3D Mark night raid coming in a little over 35,000 and the highest score I've ever been able to get out of the Radeon 78m was actually with the AMD ryzen 788 45 HS and with that we scored a 3,336 so again nice little bump here in synthetics with fire strike we got a 9,072 and the final one I ran here was time spy and we actually broke 4,000 with this Radeon I GPU 4,14 and one of the highest scores I was able to get out of that 780m was 3,351 so yeah looking pretty decent with these synthetics but now it's time to get into some real world gaming and see what this thing can really do first one we have here is cyberpunk 2077 take a look in the top leftand Corner we've got After Burner running you can see at the very bottom there our CPU package power is right there at 70 W of course this is overkill for a mobile device but you know I'm actually really excited about seeing this in Min PCS down the road but with cyberpunk 2077 1080p low FSR set to Performance we usually get an average with the Radeon 780m of around 72 with this system we actually managed to get an average of 92 FPS which is really impressive for an igpu that's a pretty good hike over the 780m but another thing we got to keep in mind is the CPU side of this thing is actually based on Zen 5 so we are getting better performance there also either way coming out with a 92 FPS average with cyberpunk 277 on an igpu is pretty amazing next up we've got the built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p low and of course we could be testing all of this at Ultra but it's still an igp at the end of the day you really do have to lower those settings down to get the maximum FPS out of it we definitely wanted to keep that 1080p resolution and at the end of this we had an average of 87 I also wanted to test out one of my favorite games and you might notice up in the top leftand corner it's locked right there at 58 FPS I'm not sure if this is a bug with the driver or my game capture or something weird going on I know for a fact that we could run this game at a constant 60 just taking a look at the way everything's going unfortunately it was just sitting right there at 58 no matter what I did tried resetting it going down the low just to make sure but right now we're at 1080 High settings here's Horizon forbidden West and no matter what igpu I've run this on we never saw a great performance until now 1080p low settings FSR is set to Balan and we are using amd's frame gen from the settings that's really the only way we can get this over 60 in an igpu at 1080 of course dropping it down to 900p will net us a lot more but at 1080 with these settings we're seeing an average of 73 FPS I don't personally play fortnite but I still wanted to throw it in here and I actually thought we'd see a little better performance out of this we're at 1080 High settings with no scaling so we're at a true 1080p here we're looking at an average of around 79 FPS I mean it's definitely playable but again and I really thought we'd see better performance out of this game going back a bit to GTA 5 we're at 1080p high normal settings this was basically how it was out of the box when I booted the game up we're looking at an average of around 128 FPS and I've extensively tested this game on the 78m with the same exact settings here kind of went into everything with exactly how I test on the 780m on most of those systems with 6400 MHz Ram at around 65 Watts we're only seeing an average of around 93 FPS so we've got a really nice jump when it comes to this older game and so far with everything I've tested on the 890m we've been seeing some pretty decent performance so the next one I wanted to go with was the built-in Benchmark for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 1080p balanced AMD frame gen on by the end of this we did see a pretty decent average FPS here and a pretty good 1% low average of 125 FPS and our 1% low was 63 but this isn't a massive jump over the 780m at those higher wattages I kind of expected to see a bit more and with this last one we're also going to be using amd's frame gem because it is built into the game something I personally like on these little igpus no FSR we're just using frame gem by the end of my run here we had an average of 92 FPS so there's no doubt that the new AMD Radeon 890m can outperform the 780m even at lower wattages it definitely outperforms it we've got 16 cus and the architecture is based on rdna 3.5 will we see this igpu in an upcoming handal device personally I do think so but it's not going to be in the same Apu package because what we've got here is the AMD ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12 course 24 threads AI doesn't make a lot of sense for handhelds and they knew that with the ryzen Z1 extreme and with that chip they cut out the AI engine kept the same rdna 3 based igpu it is the 78m they just didn't call it a 78m in that and you know they kind of rebranded the chip with the new chip specifically for powerful handheld devices I think they've learned a lot from the original and with these new Zen 5c cores I think we could get by with another 8 core 16 thread Apu with this 890m ipu so we'd have four of those Zen 5c cores which are lower powered cores but they still perform pretty pretty decently keeping the overall power draw down on the CPU allowing more for that GPU but at the time of making this video nothing's been officially announced I'd still love to know your thoughts in the comments below I mean do you think this is a big enough jump over the uh 78m to add to a handheld would it get you to buy it or would you wait it out for something a bit more powerful let me know in the comments and I will have some more testing coming up with these igpus still waiting on a few third-party applications to be fully compatible so we can really tweak and tune this thing but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching let me know your thoughts in the comments below like always thanks for watching\n"