Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) vs Adreno X1-45

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) with 112 pipelines and 896 shaders against the Adreno X1-45 that utilizes 3 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-45 over Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
  • 86% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 2.1 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.7x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (27K vs 9K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-45
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy - 928
Solar Bay - 5990
Fire Strike - 3707
Wild Life Extreme - 3225
Night Raid - 16550
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
27187
Background Blur 44.2 img/sec 14.2 img/sec
Face Detection 21.3 img/sec 6.82 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.92 Gpixels/sec 0.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.04 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.86 Gpixels/sec 0.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.32 Gpixels/sec 0.12 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 115.8 Gpixels/sec 26.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5380.5 FPS 1746.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 349
DirectX 11 - 13 FPS
DirectX 12 - 10 FPS
GPU Compute - 810 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5]634 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
No benchmark results yet
Adreno X1-45
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-03-18 (Rennsport)Geekbench 6 OpenCL9564

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 2092 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 5680 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 3418 -
Face Detection (HP) 7436 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 11114 -
Text Classification (SP) 732 -
Machine Translation (HP) 1896 -
Object Detection (SP) 2158 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 6898 -
Style Transfer (SP) 39845 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) and Adreno X1-45

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released December 14, 2023 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Xe LPG Adreno X1
GPU Codename - Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 760M - Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Successor - Intel Arc 130V -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-46-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (83rd and 105th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 280 MHz
Boost Clock 2200 MHz 1107-1367 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 896 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 56 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 112 3
Ray-tracing Cores 7 -
L1 Cache 1344KB shared 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 53 GPixel/s 27-33 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 123 GTexel/s 53-66 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3.9 TFLOPS
1.7-2.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus IGP
TGP 28 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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