AMD Radeon 820M vs Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 820M with 2 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) that utilizes 64 pipelines and 512 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 Arc iGPU (4-Cores) over Radeon 820M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 820M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
  • 2.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (2 vs 0.7 TFLOPS)
  • Has 4x more shading units (512 vs 128)

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur - 37.6 img/sec
Face Detection - 17.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 0.63 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 0.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 60 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 3695.9 FPS
API - OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 756 -
DirectX 11 21 FPS -
DirectX 12 10 FPS -
GPU Compute 986 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 85 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) - 2902
Image Segmentation (HP) - 5473
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 2967
Face Detection (HP) - 6068
Pose Estimation (Q) - 8220
Text Classification (SP) - 609
Machine Translation (HP) - 1146
Object Detection (SP) - 2766
Depth Estimation (Q) - 6405
Style Transfer (SP) - 26796
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 820M and Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 6, 2025 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Xe LPG
GPU Codename Krackan Point -
Rival Equivalent - Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core) - Radeon 740M
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 125U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 - Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225U
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235U
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255U
- and 12 more
Laptop GPU ranking (62nd and 97th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 1750-2000 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 128 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 8 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 4 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 2 64
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 2 4
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 768KB shared
L2 Cache 1MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11 GPixel/s 28-32 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 22 GTexel/s 56-64 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7 TFLOPS
1.8-2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 14 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 195 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1

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