AMD’s new Ryzen AI 300 series “Strix Point” APUs have made waves with their integrated Radeon 890M GPUs, showcasing impressive performance in early testing. These GPUs, based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture, were put through their paces at 18W of power, significantly less than the 28W+ power consumption of the Arc GPUs integrated into Intel’s current Meteor Lake processors. TechEpiphany conducted the gaming tests, comparing the 17W Strix Point APU against the 28W+ Meteor Lake CPU.
On the AMD side, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” flagship APU was used, boasting 16 compute units of the RDNA 3.5-based GPU with clock speeds reaching 2900MHz. This APU was housed in an ASUS VivoBook S16 OLED equipped with 32GB of LPDDR5X-7500 memory, and its power was tuned down to 17W, as the APU itself is set to 60W by default. For a fair comparison, Intel’s Core Ultra 7 155H “Meteor Lake” processor was used, featuring 8 Xe-Cores and a 2.25GHz GPU clock (100MHz slower than the Core Ultra 9 185H integrated GPU). This chip also had 32GB of RAM, albeit slightly slower LPDDR5X-6400.
The results were compelling. The AMD Radeon 890M at 17W achieved an average of 50-70FPS in Tomb Raider (2013 version), demonstrating a 40-60% performance advantage over the Arc Xe-LPG integrated GPU in Intel’s Meteor Lake processor. Resident Evil 6’s in-game benchmark saw the AMD GPU delivering over 60FPS with spikes exceeding 100FPS, translating to another significant 20-30% performance gain over its Intel counterpart. Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice, run at 1080p High, witnessed the RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 890M maintaining a 20-25% lead over the Arc Xe-LPG GPU. Even more impressive, Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p with Low graphics settings saw the Radeon 890M hit 35-50FPS (notably good for an APU!), achieving a remarkable 40-50% performance advantage over the Arc Xe-LPG GPU in Meteor Lake. These results highlight AMD’s strong position in the integrated graphics space, offering impressive performance at lower power consumption compared to Intel’s current offerings.
