Intel UHD Graphics 630 vs Adreno X1-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics 630 with 24 pipelines and 192 shaders against the 5 years and 7 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
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 UHD Graphics 630
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Performs significantly better (up to 6.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 9.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 0.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 4.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (24K vs 5K)
  • Has 8x more shading units (1536 vs 192)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
10
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
12
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High 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 438 1695
Solar Bay - 10596
Fire Strike 1328 6134
Wild Life Extreme 762 6152
Night Raid 5037 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Adreno X1-85 +320%
24387
Background Blur 11.2 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 6.77 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.21 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.31 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.22 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.08 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 21.4 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 794.3 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
Adreno X1-85 +143%
2981
G2D Mark 292 518
DirectX 11 10 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 5 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 495 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33061 & 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 3 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) - 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) - 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 3084
Face Detection (HP) - 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) - 7719
Text Classification (SP) - 292
Machine Translation (HP) - 1108
Object Detection (SP) - 660
Depth Estimation (Q) - 3876
Style Transfer (SP) - 12048
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 630 and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released April 3, 2018 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 9.5 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Coffee Lake GT2 Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8300H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core i7 10870H
- Intel Core i9 10885H
- Intel Core i9 10850K
- Intel Core i5 10500T
- Intel Core i5 10300H
- Intel Core i7 9700T
- Intel Core i5 9500T
- Intel Core i3 9100T
- and 38 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 (138th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 350 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1000-1250 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 192 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 3 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 6
Ray-tracing Cores - No
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 3-4 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 24-30 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.4-0.5 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +820%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus IGP
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 4 nm
Die Size 49 mm² -
Transistor Count 0.19 billion -
Transistor Density 3.88 MTr/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 1.1.103 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.2 1.4

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