Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
Tiger Lake GT2
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) with 80 pipelines and 640 shaders against the 4 months newer GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB that utilizes 38 pipelines and 4864 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
- Performs significantly better (up to 14x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 12.8x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 77 vs 6 FPS
- 8.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (16.2 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
- Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
- Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 38 dedicated RT cores
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 21 10 - - |
132 88 75 54 |
| The Witcher 3 | 12 9 - - |
152 128 92 47 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 16 11 9 - |
226 169 121 64 |
| Far Cry 6 | 13 10 - - |
114 103 83 47 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | - - - - |
86 73 55 29 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 12 12 10 - |
107 99 72 47 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 9 - - - |
82 69 48 28 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 92 81 48 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12 12 - - |
139 132 95 53 |
| 1080p High | 12 | 126 |
| 1080p Ultra | 9 | 105 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 77 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 43 |
| Margin of Error | Medium | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1230 | 11707 |
| Solar Bay | - | 54429 |
| Port Royal | - | 6971 |
| Fire Strike | 4196 | 29571 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2124 | 24417 |
| Night Raid | 15167 | 109862 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 31 img/sec | 185.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 23.3 img/sec | 108.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.61 Gpixels/sec | 5.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.87 Gpixels/sec | 7.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.36 Gpixels/sec | 5.54 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.15 Gpixels/sec | 1.15 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 36.1 Gpixels/sec | 478 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 2493.2 FPS | 15183 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 392 | 989 |
| DirectX 11 | 16 FPS | 164 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 12 FPS | 78 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 1158 Ops/s | 9865 Ops/s |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 1149 | 7384 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 1796 | 19320 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 1394 | 16108 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 2775 | 34615 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 5476 | 74811 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 981 | 2638 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 905 | 4136 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1277 | 8718 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 3737 | 25946 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 22348 | 153275 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) and GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeneral
| Vendor | Intel | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | August 15, 2020 | December 2, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $399 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Generation 12.1 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Tiger Lake GT2 | GA104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K 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 |
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Laptop GPU ranking (#132nd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#48th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 1410 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 850-1500 MHz (configurable) | 1665 MHz |
| Shading Units | 640 | 4864 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 40 | 152 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 20 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 80 | 38 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 152 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | 38 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1024KB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 17-30 GPixel/s | 133 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 34-60 GTexel/s | 253 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Ring Bus | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | 200 W |
| Manufacturing | Intel | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 10 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 146 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 17 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 43.37 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | System RAM Dependent | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | System RAM Dependent | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | System RAM Dependent | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4a |
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