Intel UHD Graphics 630 vs Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics 630 with 24 pipelines and 192 shaders against the 2 years and 4 months newer Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) that utilizes 80 pipelines and 640 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 Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) over UHD Graphics 630
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.9 vs 0.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 10 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2.5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K vs 5K)
  • Has 3.3x more shading units (640 vs 192)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
10
-
-
-
21
10
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
12
9
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
12
-
-
-
16
11
9
-
Far Cry 6 -
13
10
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy -
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
12
12
10
-
Ghost of Tsushima -
9
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
12
12
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 12
1080p Ultra - 9
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High Medium

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 1230
Fire Strike 1328 4196
Wild Life Extreme 762 2124
Night Raid 5037 15167
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 11.2 img/sec 31 img/sec
Face Detection 6.77 img/sec 23.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.61 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.31 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.22 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.08 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 21.4 Gpixels/sec 36.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 794.3 FPS 2493.2 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 292 392
DirectX 11 10 FPS 16 FPS
DirectX 12 5 FPS 12 FPS
GPU Compute 495 Ops/s 1158 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33061 & 69410 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
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) - 1149
Image Segmentation (HP) - 1796
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 1394
Face Detection (HP) - 2775
Pose Estimation (Q) - 5476
Text Classification (SP) - 981
Machine Translation (HP) - 905
Object Detection (SP) - 1277
Depth Estimation (Q) - 3737
Style Transfer (SP) - 22348
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 630 and Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released April 3, 2018 August 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 9.5 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Coffee Lake GT2 Tiger Lake GT2
Successor - Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8300H or above - Intel Core i5 1130G7 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
- 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 (139th and 134th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 350 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1000-1250 MHz (configurable) 850-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 192 640
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 3 20
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 80
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores - No
L2 Cache - 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 3-4 GPixel/s 17-30 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 24-30 GTexel/s 34-60 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.4-0.5 TFLOPS
1.1-1.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing Intel Intel
Fabrication Process 14 nm 10 nm
Die Size 49 mm² 146 mm²
Transistor Count 0.19 billion -
Transistor Density 3.88 MTr/mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.1.103 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.2 -

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