Next-gen AMD Radeon 800M iGPUs powering Ryzen AI 300 APUs are said to deliver a noticeable performance uplift over their predecessors. Based on RDNA 3.5 architecture, they are expected to deliver performance close to Nvidia’s RTX 2050 mobile.
According to Golden Pig Upgrade Pack on Bilibili, a machine powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 300 series processor delivered around a 20% performance uplift compared to its predecessor. To be more specific, the leaker talks about +2,000 single-core points and +20,000 multi-core points in Cinebench R23, alongside 3,600 points in 3DMark Time Spy’s GPU benchmark.
The laptop in question is likely to be an MSI model powered by the flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU featuring 12 Zen 5 cores and 24 threads. This processor comes equipped with a Radeon 890M iGPU boasting 16 RDNA 3.5 compute units clocked at around 2,900MHz. That said, we don’t know the power budget allocated by the manufacturer for this chip, as higher TDPs tend to help CPUs spread their legs, resulting in more performance at the expense of heat and battery life.
In the graphics department, this puts AMD’s solution within spitting distance of Nvidia’s 50W GeForce RTX 2050 discrete mobile GPU. For desktop users, this is equivalent to a Radeon RX 570, which I was rocking not long ago. Driver updates could potentially push it across that little gap, beating Nvidia’s dedicated GPU – albeit a two-year-old one. Depending on how low the power consumption can go, these chips could become the go-to for handheld gaming machines.
That said, we can’t be 100% sure about these results until the official launch in July. At least we have something to be excited about since the NPU doesn’t seem to be centre stage not that Microsoft delayed its support for its Copilot+ AI.
