AMD RDNA 3.5 “Radeon 890M & Radeon 880M” GPU Gaming Performance & Power Scaling Detailed, Major Leap For iGPUs

AMD's Radeon 890M & Radeon 880M GPUs based on the RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture become the new standard for iGPUs, setting new performance records, and have been thoroughly detailed by Golden Pig Upgrade.

AMD RDNA 3.5 Proves To Be A Great Leap For iGPUs, Radeon 890M & Radeon 880M Up To 41% Faster Than RDNA 3

Yesterday, AMD launched its brand new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix" APUs which carry three brand new cores. The CPU side is configured with Zen 5 cores, the NPU side is configured with XDNA 2 cores, and the GPU side is configured with RDNA 3.5 cores. All three architectures are a major addition to the laptop family but one component that stands out is the RDNA 3.5 architecture which shows big performance improvements over its RDNA 3 predecessor.

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Despite being a refresh/optimization of the RDNA 3 core and not a proper architectural change like the next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs, the RDNA 3.5 architecture shows that AMD can still achieve some great results by tuning its existing designs. The first two iGPUs that are based on the new RDNA 3.5 GPU architecture are the Radeon 890M (featured on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370) and the Radeon 880M (featured on Ryzen AI 9 365).

Hardware insider and tester, Golden Pig Upgrade, did a thorough testing of both Radeon 800M GPUs and the results speak for themselves. But before we get to those, let's quickly give you a rundown of the specs of each iGPU. The Radeon 890M is the flagship configuration offering 16 Compute Units or 1024 cores clocked up to 2900 MHz and the Radeon 880M features 12 Compute Units or 768 cores clocked at the same peak clocks of up to 2900 MHz. The flagship houses 33% more cores than the previous RDNA 3 flagship, the Radeon 780M which matches the Radeon 880M.

The testing comparisons include the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 at 60W/70W (PL1/SPL), Ryzen AI 9 365 at 60W/54W (PL1/SPL), Ryzen 7 8845HS at 60W/60W (PL1/SPL) and Core