Today we are taking a closer look at the Radeon 890M iGPU that’s found within the brand new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU. Of course, Mat already reviewed the ASUS Zenbook S 16 laptop that uses this CPU at the end of July, so this isn’t our first hands on with the machine, but today's video is focused on one thing – gaming on the 890M!

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
00:50 Setting the scene…
02:39 COD: MW3
03:29 Cyberpunk 2077
04:27 F1 23
05:22 Forza Horizon 5
06:13 Horizon Forbidden West
07:17 Returnal
08:14 Shadow of the Tomb Raider + Ray tracing!
09:47 Spider-Man Miles Morales
10:32 Starfield

Zenbook S 16 Specification

• Processor – AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 Processor 2.0GHz (36MB Cache, up to 5.1GHz, 12 cores, 24 Threads); AMD Ryzen™ AI up to 81 TOPs
• Graphics – AMD Radeon™ 890M Graphics
• Neural Processor – XDNA up to 50TOPs
• Display – 16.0-inch, 3K (2880 x 1800) OLED 16:10 aspect ratio, 0.2ms response time, 120Hz refresh rate
• Memory – 32GB LPDDR5X on board
• Storage – Micron 2400 1TB M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 4.0 SSD
• I/O
  • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
  • 2x USB 4.0 Gen 3 Type-C support display / power delivery
  • 1x HDMI 2.1 TMDS
  • 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
  • SD 4.0 card reader
• Keyboard and Trackpad – Chiclet Keyboard, 1.1mm Key-travel, Precision touchpad, With Copilot key
• Camera – FHD camera with IR function to support Windows Hello
• Networking – Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) (Tri-band)2*2 + Bluetooth® 5.4 Wireless Card
• Battery – 78WHrs, 2S2P, 4-cell Li-ion

Testing

Today's testing is a bit different to our usual style, as we're not presenting a whole heap of benchmark charts. Instead, I captured a range of different games, running at a variety of image quality settings, some with and some without FSR – to give you a ‘real world' looking at the gaming performance on offer from this iGPU. That is quite hard to present in written form, so I do recommend watching the video above to see how this iGPU fares. We have timestamped each of the games tested so you can quickly skip ahead if you are more interested in specific titles.

For a short summary however, we are mighty impressed with what the Radeon 890M can do. Plenty of games tested delivered very playable performance, some even at High settings like Forza Horizon 5 and F1 23. Of course, this is still an iGPU so we have to be sensible, but for a low power chip for some on-the-go gaming, the results are certainly not to be sniffed at.

It's also worth pointing out that the ASUS Zenbook S 16 used for testing tops out at around 33W power for the CPU, and we know the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is available in even higher power configurations, and that will have a knock on for iGPU performance. What I'm really keen to see, however, is how performance scales downwards, particularly with an eye to handheld devices which can often run at just 10-15W. That will have to wait for another day, but for now the 890M is suitably impressive in its current guise.

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KitGuru says: iGPUs have come a long way since I first started benchmarking graphics cards, and the 890M is a viable contender for some on-the-go gaming.

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