The AMD Radeon 880M, part of the RDNA 3.5 architecture, showcases a notable improvement over its predecessor, the Radeon 780M. In ASUS’s recent promotion for its new Vivobook laptop, the Radeon 880M was highlighted for its performance nearing that of the RTX 3050 Laptop GPU at a 40W TGP.

According to ASUS, the 880M delivers approximately 15% higher performance than the 780M, as evidenced by benchmarks like 3DMark TimeSpy. This performance leap is significant, particularly for integrated graphics, which often lag behind dedicated GPUs.

The Radeon 880M features 12 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units (CUs), maintaining the same CU configuration as the previous Phoenix and Hawk Point-based APUs. In contrast, the more powerful 890M variant comes with 16 CUs, offering a performance boost of 19% to 32% over the 780M under the same 15W power envelope.

This suggests that the enhancements in RDNA 3.5 architecture focus on maximizing performance without increasing power consumption, making it ideal for low-power settings.

This comparison underlines the efficiency of the RDNA 3.5 architecture, which achieves substantial performance gains without requiring additional power. Notably, the 880M’s performance improvement is largely attributed to its 100 MHz higher GPU boost clock and the integration of faster LPDDR5X memory, both of which contribute significantly to enhanced graphics performance.

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