Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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

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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 Ti over Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
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 resolutions

Games

FPS Table
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
Average FPS by Resolution
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 apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
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
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 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
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
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
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]69410 & 33990 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9]3934 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 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
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

General

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
-
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)
RTX 3060 Ti +753%
16.2 TFLOPS

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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