AMD Radeon 660M vs Intel UHD Graphics 630

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 660M with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 3 years and 10 months older Intel UHD 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 Radeon 660M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 660M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.5 vs 0.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 9 vs 4 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2.4x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K 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
27
13
11
-
10
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
17
13
-
12
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
20
16
9
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
10
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
18
15
13
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
13
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
9
9
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
17
14
11
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 -
1080p Ultra 12 -
1440p Ultra 9 -
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
Radeon 660M +297%
1341
Time Spy 1514 438
Solar Bay 6396 -
Port Royal 586 -
Fire Strike 4879 1328
Wild Life Extreme 2676 762
Night Raid 18958 5037
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 660M +142%
14065
Background Blur 36 img/sec 11.2 img/sec
Face Detection 16.4 img/sec 6.77 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.48 Gpixels/sec 0.21 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.31 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.53 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 46.5 Gpixels/sec 21.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2056.5 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
Radeon 660M +148%
3044
G2D Mark 654 292
DirectX 11 47 FPS 10 FPS
DirectX 12 23 FPS 5 FPS
GPU Compute 1321 Ops/s 495 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]5 & 33061 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
92.56
Sources: Blender [9], [10]4 & 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) 1465 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 1706 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4266 -
Face Detection (HP) 5115 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 12992 -
Text Classification (SP) 1116 -
Machine Translation (HP) 1859 -
Object Detection (SP) 1574 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 6538 -
Style Transfer (SP) 26656 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 660M and Intel UHD Graphics 630

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 April 3, 2018
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Generation 9.5
GPU Codename Rembrandt Coffee Lake GT2
Successor - Radeon 8040S - Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above - Intel Core i5 8300H 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 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 (115th and 137th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 1800-1900 MHz (configurable) 1000-1250 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 3
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 24
Ray-tracing Cores 6 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1024KB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 29-30 GPixel/s 3-4 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 43-46 GTexel/s 24-30 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 660M +200%
1.4-1.5 TFLOPS
0.4-0.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 6 nm 14 nm
Die Size 208 mm² 49 mm²
Transistor Count 13.1 billion 0.19 billion
Transistor Density 62.98 MTr/mm² 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 No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.1.103
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.2

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