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Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) vs Graphics (16 EU)

Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
VS
Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Tiger Lake GT2
Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Tiger Lake Xe

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) with 48 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 8 months newer Graphics (16 EU) that utilizes 16 pipelines and 128 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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 UHD Graphics (16 EU) over UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.1 vs 0.4 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (8K vs 3K)
  • Has 3x more shading units (384 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
vs
UHD Graphics (16 EU)

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
13
9
-
-
10
-
-
-
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 741 308
Fire Strike 2345 1103
Wild Life Extreme 1606 745
Night Raid 10085 4719
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 8.99 img/sec
Face Detection 10.7 img/sec 5.66 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.3 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.3 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 21.5 Gpixels/sec 10 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1269.5 FPS 567.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
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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) 893 406
Image Segmentation (HP) 1369 609
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1052 530
Face Detection (HP) 2087 951
Pose Estimation (Q) 3981 1936
Text Classification (SP) 807 538
Machine Translation (HP) 895 542
Object Detection (SP) 944 451
Depth Estimation (Q) 2678 1237
Style Transfer (SP) 13752 5464
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) and Graphics (16 EU)

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released August 15, 2020 May 10, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.1 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Tiger Lake GT2 Tiger Lake Xe
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 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
Laptop GPU ranking (130th and 144th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 800-1400 MHz (configurable) 750-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 12 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 16
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 10-17 GPixel/s 3-6 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 19-34 GTexel/s 6-12 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) +175%
0.6-1.1 TFLOPS
UHD Graphics (16 EU)
0.2-0.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 6-15 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Intel Intel
Fabrication Process 10 nm 10 nm
Die Size 146 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 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4a

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
5 (83.3%)
1 (16.7%)
Total votes: 6

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