Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU) vs Graphics 630

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU) with 16 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 3 years and 2 months older Graphics 630 that utilizes 24 pipelines and 192 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 UHD Graphics 630 over UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 10 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics 630
  • Performs significantly better (up to 50%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 25% higher maximum theoretical performance (0.5 vs 0.4 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 46% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (5K vs 3K)
  • Has 50% more shading units (192 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
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10
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The Witcher 3 -
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Counter-Strike 2
10
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12
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Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low High

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 308 438
Fire Strike 1103 1328
Wild Life Extreme 745 762
Night Raid 4719 5037
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 8.99 img/sec 11.2 img/sec
Face Detection 5.66 img/sec 6.77 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.16 Gpixels/sec 0.21 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.25 Gpixels/sec 0.31 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.16 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.04 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 10 Gpixels/sec 21.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 567.5 FPS 794.3 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
DirectX 11 - 10 FPS
DirectX 12 - 5 FPS
GPU Compute - 495 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 33061 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) 406 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 609 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 530 -
Face Detection (HP) 951 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 1936 -
Text Classification (SP) 538 -
Machine Translation (HP) 542 -
Object Detection (SP) 451 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 1237 -
Style Transfer (SP) 5464 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU) and Graphics 630

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released May 10, 2021 April 3, 2018
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.1 Generation 9.5
GPU Codename Tiger Lake Xe Coffee Lake GT2
Successor - - Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Recommended CPU - - Intel Core i5 8300H or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 225
- Intel Core i5 12450HX
- Intel Core i5 14450HX
- Intel Processor N95
- Intel Core i5 13450HX
- Intel Core i5 13500HX
- Intel Core i7 13650HX
- Intel Celeron N5095
- and 3 more
- 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
Laptop GPU ranking (145th and 139th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 350 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 750-1550 MHz (configurable) 1000-1250 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 128 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 8 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 4 3
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 24
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 3-6 GPixel/s 3-4 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 6-12 GTexel/s 24-30 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.2-0.4 TFLOPS
0.4-0.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Ring Bus
TGP 6-15 W (configurable) 15 W
Manufacturing Intel Intel
Fabrication Process 10 nm 14 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
Vulkan 1.2 1.1.103
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.2

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