AMD Radeon 820M vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 820M with 2 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 4 years and 6 months older Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) that utilizes 80 pipelines and 640 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 Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) over Radeon 820M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 820M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 2 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
  • 2.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.9 vs 0.7 TFLOPS)
  • Has 5x more shading units (640 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
21
10
-
-
The Witcher 3 -
12
9
-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
16
11
9
-
Far Cry 6 -
13
10
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy -
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
12
12
10
-
Ghost of Tsushima -
9
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
12
12
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 12
1080p Ultra - 9
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High Medium

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 - 1230
Fire Strike - 4196
Wild Life Extreme - 2124
Night Raid - 15167
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur - 31 img/sec
Face Detection - 23.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 0.61 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 36.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 2493.2 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 756 392
DirectX 11 21 FPS 16 FPS
DirectX 12 10 FPS 12 FPS
GPU Compute 986 Ops/s 1158 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 85 & 69410 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) - 1149
Image Segmentation (HP) - 1796
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 1394
Face Detection (HP) - 2775
Pose Estimation (Q) - 5476
Text Classification (SP) - 981
Machine Translation (HP) - 905
Object Detection (SP) - 1277
Depth Estimation (Q) - 3737
Style Transfer (SP) - 22348
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 820M and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 6, 2025 August 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Krackan Point Tiger Lake GT2
Rival Equivalent - Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core) -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 or above - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 - Intel Core 5 220U
- Intel Core 5 220H
- Intel Core i5 1334U
- Intel Core 5 120U
- Intel Core i5 1335U
- Intel Core i5 1345U
- Intel Core i5 1340P
- Intel Core i5 13500H
- and 14 more
Laptop GPU ranking (62nd and 133rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 850-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 128 640
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 8 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 4 20
Compute Units (Pipelines) 2 80
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 2 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11 GPixel/s 17-30 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 22 GTexel/s 34-60 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7 TFLOPS
1.1-1.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 nm
Die Size 195 mm² 146 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

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 1.4 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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