Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) vs Adreno X1-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) with 80 pipelines and 640 shaders against the 3 years and 2 months newer Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 71% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (24K vs 14K)
  • Has 2.4x more shading units (1536 vs 640)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
21
10
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
12
9
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
16
11
9
-
-
Far Cry 6
13
10
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
-
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
12
12
10
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
12
12
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 12 -
1080p Ultra 9 -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Medium Low

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 1230 1695
Solar Bay - 10596
Fire Strike 4196 6134
Wild Life Extreme 2124 6152
Night Raid 15167 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 31 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 23.3 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.61 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.87 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.36 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.15 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 36.1 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2493.2 FPS 4692.5 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 392 518
DirectX 11 16 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 12 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 1158 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 69410 & 7 samples

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) 1149 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 1796 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1394 3084
Face Detection (HP) 2775 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 5476 7719
Text Classification (SP) 981 292
Machine Translation (HP) 905 1108
Object Detection (SP) 1277 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 3737 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 22348 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released August 15, 2020 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.1 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Tiger Lake GT2 Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 5 220U
- Intel Core 5 220H
- Intel Core i5 1334U
- Intel Core 5 120U
- Intel Core i5 1335U
- Intel Core i5 1345U
- Intel Core i5 1340P
- Intel Core i5 13500H
- and 14 more
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (133rd and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 850-1500 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 640 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 20 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 80 6
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 17-30 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 34-60 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Adreno X1-85 +142%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus IGP
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
Die Size 146 mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent -
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent -
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent -
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4

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