AMD’s new Ryzen AI 300 series “Strix Point” APUs have had their new RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 890M integrated GPU tested at 18W of power, compared to 28W+ power and the Arc GPU on Intel’s current Meteor Lake processors.
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The gaming tests between the integrated GPUs was conducted by TechEpiphany, comparing the 17W Strix Point APU against the 28W+ Meteor Lake CPU. On the AMD side of things, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” flagship APU was used, with 16 compute units of RDNA 3.5-based GPU with clocks of up to 2900MHz.
It is inside of the ASUS VivoBook S16 OLED which is equipped with 32GB of LPDDR5X-7500 memory, and tuned down to 17W as the APU itself is set to 60W by default. For comparison, the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H “Meteor Lake” processor was used, with 8 Xe-Cores and a 2.25GHz GPU clock (which is 100MHz slower than the Core Ultra 9 185H integrated GPU). This chip also featured 32GB of RAM, but LPDDR5X-6400 (slightly slower).
The new AMD Radeon 890M at 17W was running Tomb Raider (2013 version) at 50-70FPS average, which means it is 40-60% faster than the Arc Xe-LPG integrated GPU inside of Intel’s Meteor Lake processor using 28W of power.
Resident Evil 6’s in-game benchmark was run, with over 60FPS with spikes of 100FPS+ which means it’s another hefty 20-30% performance gain over the Arc GPU in Meteor Lake. Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice was run at 1080p High, with the RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 890M enjoying another 20-25% performance gain over the Arc Xe-LPG GPU.
Cyberpunk 2077 was even more impressive, with the game on 1080p and Low graphics settings seeing the Radeon 890M hitting 35-50FPS (not bad for an APU!) but a huge 40-50% performance gain over the Arc Xe-LPG GPU inside of Meteor Lake.