AMD Radeon 660M vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 660M with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months older Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) that utilizes 80 pipelines and 640 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
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 Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) over Radeon 660M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 660M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 56%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 6 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
  • 27% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.9 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Has 67% more shading units (640 vs 384)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
27
13
11
-
21
10
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
12
-
-
12
9
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
17
13
-
16
11
9
-
Far Cry 6
20
16
9
-
13
10
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
18
15
13
-
12
12
10
-
Ghost of Tsushima
13
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
9
9
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
17
14
11
-
12
12
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 12
1080p Ultra 12 9
1440p Ultra 9 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Medium

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 1514 1230
Solar Bay 6396 -
Port Royal 586 -
Fire Strike 4879 4196
Wild Life Extreme 2676 2124
Night Raid 18958 15167
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 36 img/sec 31 img/sec
Face Detection 16.4 img/sec 23.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.48 Gpixels/sec 0.61 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.53 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 46.5 Gpixels/sec 36.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2056.5 FPS 2493.2 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 654 392
DirectX 11 47 FPS 16 FPS
DirectX 12 23 FPS 12 FPS
GPU Compute 1321 Ops/s 1158 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 5 & 69410 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 4 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) 1465 1149
Image Segmentation (HP) 1706 1796
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4266 1394
Face Detection (HP) 5115 2775
Pose Estimation (Q) 12992 5476
Text Classification (SP) 1116 981
Machine Translation (HP) 1859 905
Object Detection (SP) 1574 1277
Depth Estimation (Q) 6538 3737
Style Transfer (SP) 26656 22348
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 660M and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 August 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Rembrandt Tiger Lake GT2
Successor - Radeon 8040S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 150
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
- Intel Core 5 220U
- Intel Core 5 220H
- Intel Core i5 1334U
- Intel Core 5 120U
- Intel Core i5 1335U
- Intel Core i5 1345U
- Intel Core i5 1340P
- Intel Core i5 13500H
- and 14 more
Laptop GPU ranking (117th and 134th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1800-1900 MHz (configurable) 850-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 640
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 20
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 80
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 6 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 29-30 GPixel/s 17-30 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 43-46 GTexel/s 34-60 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.4-1.5 TFLOPS
1.1-1.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 6 nm 10 nm
Die Size 208 mm² 146 mm²
Transistor Count 13.1 billion -
Transistor Density 62.98 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 No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No

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