Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) vs Graphics 620

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) with 48 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 2 years older Graphics 620 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 620 over UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 71%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.1 vs 0.4 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 10 nm process technology
  • Achieves 55% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (8K vs 5K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (384 vs 192)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
12
-
-
-
10
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
13
9
-
-
11
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
-
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
-
-
-
-
-
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 741 361
Fire Strike 2345 1148
Wild Life Extreme 1606 772
Night Raid 10085 5100
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 18.4 img/sec 10.4 img/sec
Face Detection 10.7 img/sec 6.19 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.3 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.3 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 21.5 Gpixels/sec 20.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1269.5 FPS 769 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G2D Mark - 234
DirectX 11 - 8 FPS
DirectX 12 - 5 FPS
GPU Compute - 433 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 39824 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
No benchmark results yet
Intel UHD Graphics 620
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-03 (Mike)Geekbench 6 OpenCL4394
📘 2026-02-23 (UTYONE)Geekbench 6 OpenCL4895

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) 893 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 1369 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1052 -
Face Detection (HP) 2087 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 3981 -
Text Classification (SP) 807 -
Machine Translation (HP) 895 -
Object Detection (SP) 944 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 2678 -
Style Transfer (SP) 13752 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) and Graphics 620

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released August 15, 2020 August 28, 2018
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.1 Generation 9.5
GPU Codename Tiger Lake GT2 Whiskey Lake GT2
Recommended CPU - - Intel Core i5 8265U or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 5 210H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX
- Intel Processor U300
- Intel Core i5 13420H
- Intel Core i5 12450H
- Intel Core i3 1125G4
- Intel Pentium Gold 7505
- and 1 more
- Intel Core i5 10310U
- Intel Core i7 10610U
- Intel Core i7 10810U
- Intel Core i5 8365U
- Intel Core i7 8665U
- Intel Core i3 10110U
- Intel Core i5 8350U
- Intel Core i7 8650U
- and 7 more
Laptop GPU ranking (131st and 137th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 800-1400 MHz (configurable) 1000-1150 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 12 3
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 24
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 10-17 GPixel/s 3 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 19-34 GTexel/s 24-28 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.6-1.1 TFLOPS
0.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing Intel Intel
Fabrication Process 10 nm 14 nm
Die Size 146 mm² 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 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 1.2 1.1.103
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.2

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