Intel UHD Graphics 730 vs Adreno X1-45

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics 730 with 24 pipelines and 192 shaders against the 2 years and 10 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 UHD Graphics 730
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-45
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.1 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Has 4x more shading units (768 vs 192)
  • Achieves 50% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (9K vs 6K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
11
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-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
13
9
-
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-
Far Cry 6
-
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
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 608 928
Solar Bay - 5990
Fire Strike 2250 3707
Wild Life Extreme 1516 3225
Night Raid 8988 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 13.7 img/sec 14.2 img/sec
Face Detection 8.19 img/sec 6.82 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.26 Gpixels/sec 0.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.38 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.25 Gpixels/sec 0.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.12 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 19.2 Gpixels/sec 26.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 887.2 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 426 348
DirectX 11 10 FPS 13 FPS
DirectX 12 7 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 628 Ops/s 807 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9764 & 696 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics 730
No benchmark results yet
Adreno X1-45
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-03-18 (Rennsport)Geekbench 6 OpenCL9564

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 730 and Adreno X1-45

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2021 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.1 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Rocket Lake GT1 Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 11400 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Processor N250
- Intel Processor N150
- Intel Core i5 14400
- Intel Core i3 14100
- Intel Core i3 13100
- Intel Core i5 13400
- Intel Core i3 12100
- Intel Core i5 12400
- and 1 more
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-46-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (140th and 107th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 280 MHz
Boost Clock 900-1550 MHz (configurable) 1107-1367 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 192 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 3
Tensor Cores No -
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 22-37 GPixel/s 27-33 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 43-74 GTexel/s 53-66 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.3-0.6 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-45 +250%
1.7-2.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus IGP
TGP 15 W -
Manufacturing - TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 4 nm

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4

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