Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) vs GeForce GTX 1650
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Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
Tiger Lake GT2
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650
TU117
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) with 96 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB that utilizes 14 pipelines and 896 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 Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 10 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1650
- Performs significantly better (up to 3.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 3.1x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 22 vs 7 FPS
- Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory
- 25% higher maximum theoretical performance (3 vs 2.4 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 2.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (39K vs 17K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 21 11 - - |
57 32 24 15 |
| The Witcher 3 | 12 11 - - |
43 33 21 10 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 19 12 9 - |
75 54 34 14 |
| Far Cry 6 | 14 11 - - |
45 41 26 13 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 9 - - - |
25 21 17 - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 14 12 10 - |
37 31 20 14 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 11 - - - |
25 15 14 - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - - - - |
28 22 13 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 15 13 9 - |
45 43 29 13 |
| 1080p High | 14 | 42 |
| 1080p Ultra | 10 | 32 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 22 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 11 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1282 | 3562 |
| Solar Bay | - | 12275 |
| Fire Strike | 4411 | 9702 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 3119 | 7353 |
| Night Raid | 14097 | 46224 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 34.5 img/sec | 66.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 27.4 img/sec | 43.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.75 Gpixels/sec | 1.51 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.11 Gpixels/sec | 1.68 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.39 Gpixels/sec | 1.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.18 Gpixels/sec | 0.49 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 55.6 Gpixels/sec | 187.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 3061.7 FPS | 5261.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | - | 551 |
| DirectX 11 | - | 58 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | - | 35 FPS |
| GPU Compute | - | 3031 Ops/s |
Recent User Tests
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-25 -> op1 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 16849 |
| 📘 2026-07-25 -> sevensrays | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 16620 |
| 📘 2026-04-15 -> maheshkondraju | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 15810 |
GeForce GTX 1650
No benchmark results yet
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) | 1428 | 3208 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 2420 | 4254 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 1551 | 7050 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 3685 | 6849 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 6255 | 23562 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 938 | 1755 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1028 | 3096 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1581 | 3710 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 4305 | 12946 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 26119 | 48894 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) and GeForce GTX 1650General
| Vendor | Intel | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | August 15, 2020 | April 23, 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $149 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Entry-level |
| Architecture | Generation 12.1 | Turing |
| GPU Codename | Tiger Lake GT2 | TU117 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 1160G7 or above | - Intel Core i5 9400 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 |
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Laptop GPU ranking (#125th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#88th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 1485 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 950-1550 MHz (configurable) | 1665 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 896 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 48 | 56 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 24 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 96 | 14 |
| Tensor Cores | - | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | - | No |
| L1 Cache | - | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1024KB shared | 1024KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 23-37 GPixel/s | 53 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 46-74 GTexel/s | 93 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Ring Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | 75 W |
| Manufacturing | Intel | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 10 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 146 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 4 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 20 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Memory Size | System RAM Dependent | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | System RAM Dependent | 2001 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | System RAM Dependent | 8000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-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 | - | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | No | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4a |
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