RDNA 3 The Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards didn’t get off to a great start, but the architecture could have redemption AMD Radeon 780Man integrated GPU for Ryzen CPUs that aims to significantly improve the performance currently offered by Steam Deck, Valve’s console/mini-PC.

The AMD Radeon 780M integrated graphics was revealed on a Chinese-origin technology forum called Bilibili. There, the user posted some supposed performance tests performed with 3DMark Time Spy on the above integrated graphics, with a result that, according to the version of the user who posted the data, he assumes A 25% improvement over the Radeon 680M, which uses the RDNA 2 architecture and approaches the notebook-oriented variant of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050..

The Radeon 780M was unveiled at CES 2023 alongside the Radeon 760M, its more modest sibling. The first will be configured with 768 shaders, 48 ​​texture units, 32 raster units, 12 ray tracing acceleration units and 24 artificial intelligence acceleration units. The second will have 384 shaders, 24 texture units, 16 raster units, 6 ray tracing acceleration units and 12 intelligence acceleration units. Neither will have a level 3 cache.

As for performance tests, forum user Bilibili showed a score 3,000 with 7,500 MHz LPDDR5X RAM and 2,750 with 5,600 MHz DDR5 memory. With these results, Tom’s Hardware decided to make a comparison with the graphics models that have already been released, which include the integrated Radeon 680M and some dedicated ones, including the aforementioned RTX 2050 for notebooks.

As an integrated graphics card, the Radeon 780M does not have dedicated memory, so it supports this function in the computer’s RAM. On the other hand, and according to PC Gamer, the Steam Deck’s integrated graphics, based on the RDNA 2 architecture, produced a result of 1,700 points at the time, so the latest generation of integrated graphics aims to significantly outperform the mini-PC. from Valve, which is of course limited by its design and layout.

However, some suspect the truth of the alleged tests for a very obvious reason: the fact that the results are too round. It is argued that the results may be an estimate rather than actual, and it should also be noted that synthetic test results do not necessarily represent good performance or good experience in a real-world environment, which remains evidence. with the highest score going to the Intel Arc A380.

We’ll see what kind of performance the AMD Radeon 780M actually delivers in the end, but if it more or less lives up to the expectations surrounding it, it would essentially confirm the existence of Steam Deck 2, which is supposed to be a must-have for Valve’s hardware. slipstream in terms of system requirements, even if it comes at the cost of sacrificing a lot of graphics quality and the use of FidelityFX Super Resolution, a scaling technology, the third version of which will rely on artificial intelligence to improve the final result.

Another point to keep in mind is that the performance offered by the AMD Radeon 780M may not carry over to the anticipated Steam Deck 2 if Valve decides to use the aforementioned integrated GPU.