AMD Radeon 660M vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 660M with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) that utilizes 48 pipelines and 384 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 UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) over Radeon 660M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 660M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • 36% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.5 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 6 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 72% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K vs 8K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
27
13
11
-
12
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
17
13
-
13
9
-
-
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 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 1514 741
Solar Bay 6396 -
Port Royal 586 -
Fire Strike 4879 2345
Wild Life Extreme 2676 1606
Night Raid 18958 10085
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 18.4 img/sec
Face Detection 16.4 img/sec 10.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.48 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.53 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 46.5 Gpixels/sec 21.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2056.5 FPS 1269.5 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 -
DirectX 11 47 FPS -
DirectX 12 23 FPS -
GPU Compute 1321 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 5 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 893
Image Segmentation (HP) 1706 1369
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4266 1052
Face Detection (HP) 5115 2087
Pose Estimation (Q) 12992 3981
Text Classification (SP) 1116 807
Machine Translation (HP) 1859 895
Object Detection (SP) 1574 944
Depth Estimation (Q) 6538 2678
Style Transfer (SP) 26656 13752
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 660M and Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)

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 -
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 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
Laptop GPU ranking (116th and 130th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 1800-1900 MHz (configurable) 800-1400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 12
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 48
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 6 No
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 10-17 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 43-46 GTexel/s 19-34 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.4-1.5 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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