AMD Radeon 780M vs Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU) that utilizes 16 pipelines and 128 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 (16 EU) over Radeon 780M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 11.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 10.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.3 vs 0.4 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 5.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 16 vs 3 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 8.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (32K vs 3K)
  • Has 6x more shading units (768 vs 128)

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
10
-
-
-
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 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 2787 308
Solar Bay 11525 -
Port Royal 1579 -
Fire Strike 7885 1103
Wild Life Extreme 5305 745
Night Raid 33367 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 86.4 img/sec 8.99 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 5.66 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 10 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 567.5 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 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]179 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekBench32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)GeekBench28558
Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
No benchmark results yet

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 406
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 609
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 530
Face Detection (HP) 12855 951
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 1936
Text Classification (SP) 2578 538
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 542
Object Detection (SP) 3078 451
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 1237
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 5464
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 May 10, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Phoenix Tiger Lake Xe
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U 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 5 225
- 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 (97th and 143rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 750-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 16
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 12 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 86-90 GPixel/s 3-6 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 6-12 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 780M +975%
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
0.2-0.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 6-15 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 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 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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