Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU) vs Adreno X1-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU) with 64 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year and 10 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
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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over UHD Graphics (64 EU)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 93% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (24K vs 12K)
  • Has 3x more shading units (1536 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
18
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
11
9
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
18
10
9
-
-
Far Cry 6
11
-
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
-
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
12
10
-
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
10
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
11
10
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 12 -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low 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 1016 1695
Solar Bay - 10596
Fire Strike 3342 6134
Wild Life Extreme 2378 6152
Night Raid 13315 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 27.6 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 19.2 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.52 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.37 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.14 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 33 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2055.2 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
G2D Mark - 518
DirectX 11 - 19 FPS
DirectX 12 - 10 FPS
GPU Compute - 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 7 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) 1170 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 1951 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1359 3084
Face Detection (HP) 2991 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 5311 7719
Text Classification (SP) 984 292
Machine Translation (HP) 1138 1108
Object Detection (SP) 1273 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 3655 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 19706 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics (64 EU) and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2022 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Xe architecture (Gen12) Adreno X1
GPU Codename Alder Lake GT1 Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 660M - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i3 1215U or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 7 240H
- Intel Core 3 100U
- Intel Core i3 1305U
- Intel Core i3 1315U
- Intel Core i7 13620H
- Intel Core i3 1220P
- Intel Core i3 1215U
- Intel Core i7 12650H
- 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 (131st and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 850-1500 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 6
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 14-24 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 27-48 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.9-1.5 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +207%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus IGP
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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