AMD Radeon 780M vs Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 1 year newer Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 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 Arc iGPU (8-Cores) over Radeon 780M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
  • Has 33% more shading units (1024 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
52
26
22
11
-
The Witcher 3
26
26
13
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
44
31
21
9
-
Far Cry 6
39
29
21
10
-
Hogwarts Legacy
22
15
11
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
34
29
19
12
-
Ghost of Tsushima
21
15
10
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
19
20
10
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
31
20
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 33 -
1080p Ultra 25 -
1440p Ultra 16 -
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
Time Spy 2787 -
Solar Bay 11525 -
Port Royal 1579 -
Fire Strike 7885 -
Wild Life Extreme 5305 -
Night Raid 33367 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 86.4 img/sec 66.6 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 28.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.24 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 102.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 6543.8 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 885 -
DirectX 11 65 FPS -
DirectX 12 30 FPS -
GPU Compute 3577 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 12072 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 182 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-02-22 (Catt)Steel Nomad Light2669
📘 2026-01-15 (Ak-Dev)Geekbench 6 OpenCL64108
📘 2025-11-08 (Anuj)Geekbench 6 OpenCL35379

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) 3860 2540
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 7387
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 4047
Face Detection (HP) 12855 8563
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 11171
Text Classification (SP) 2578 819
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 2228
Object Detection (SP) 3078 2725
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 7794
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 34572
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Xe LPG
GPU Codename Phoenix -
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) - Radeon 760M
Successor - Radeon 8050S - Intel Arc 140V
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 135H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more
- Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
- Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 86th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 2200-2350 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 128
Ray-tracing Cores 12 8
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 1536KB shared
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 86-90 GPixel/s 70-75 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 141-150 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
4.5-4.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 28 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 178 mm² -
Transistor Count 25.4 billion -
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1

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bepisboi February 14, 2025 at 08:35 AM
Are all Intel Arc Graphics the same, or are there different generations?
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