Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) vs Adreno X1-45

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) with 96 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 3 years and 2 months newer 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 Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
  • Achieves 74% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (17K vs 9K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-45
  • Performs better (up to 22%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
21
11
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
12
11
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
19
12
9
-
-
Far Cry 6
14
11
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
9
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
14
12
10
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
11
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
15
13
9
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 14 -
1080p Ultra 10 -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cardsโ€™ 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 1282 928
Solar Bay - 5990
Fire Strike 4411 3707
Wild Life Extreme 3119 3225
Night Raid 14097 16550
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 34.5 img/sec 14.2 img/sec
Face Detection 27.4 img/sec 6.82 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.75 Gpixels/sec 0.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.11 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.39 Gpixels/sec 0.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.12 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 55.6 Gpixels/sec 26.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3061.7 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] โ€“ 634 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-07-25 -> sevensraysGeekbench 6 OpenCL16620
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-04-15 -> maheshkondrajuGeekbench 6 OpenCL15810
Adreno X1-45
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 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) 1428 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 2420 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1551 -
Face Detection (HP) 3685 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 6255 -
Text Classification (SP) 938 -
Machine Translation (HP) 1028 -
Object Detection (SP) 1581 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 4305 -
Style Transfer (SP) 26119 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) and Adreno X1-45

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 M2 GPU (8-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 1160G7 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 7 250H
- Intel Core 9 270H
- Intel Core 7 150U
- Intel Core i7 13705H
- Intel Core i9 13905H
- Intel Core i7 1355U
- Intel Core i7 1365U
- Intel Core i7 1360P
- and 23 more
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-46-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (123rd and 105th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 280 MHz
Boost Clock 950-1550 MHz (configurable) 1107-1367 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 96 3
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 23-37 GPixel/s 27-33 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 46-74 GTexel/s 53-66 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.5-2.4 TFLOPS
1.7-2.1 TFLOPS

Physical

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

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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