Latest benchmarks of AMD's Radeon 880M "RDNA 3.5" iGPU show similar performance as the Radeon 780M "RDNA 3" iGPU.
Just three days ago, ASUS officially launched its AMD Ryzen AI 300 laptops, bringing the latest Strix Point APUs to the mainstream market. While official reviews are yet to surface on the internet, we already have a sneak peek into the actual benchmarks of one of the Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs used in these laptops. While most of the laptops in this lineup feature a discrete GPU, there are a few models, such as the ASUS Zenbook S16, that run solely on its APU without any discrete GPU.
This laptop features the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 APU, featuring the Radeon 880M graphics, which was recently seen in the Geekbench benchmark database. In the OpenCL test, the Radeon 880M iGPU scored 30,521 points. The upload date is July 21, 2024, making it the most recent benchmark of this less popular APU. While Geekbench isn't the best way to compare and analyze the performance of GPUs, it is indeed helpful in knowing where the GPU would stand with others in the same race.
For instance, the AMD Radeon 880M's score of 30,521 points is roughly equivalent to the highest score obtained by the Radeon 780M, which is 31,337. This indicates that the Radeon 880M may be equivalent to its predecessor. However, there are a few more 780M benchmarks that dip below 30,000 points in many instances. Hence, we need more data before we can conclude if the 880M will be equivalent to or faster than the Radeon 780M. What's interesting is that the 880M's performance numbers could be limited by its operating power on the Zenbook S16.