AMD Radeon 820M vs Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 820M with 2 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 1 year newer Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core) that utilizes 4 pipelines and 256 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Xe3 Graphics (2-Core) over Radeon 820M
Reasons to consider the Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core)
  • 86% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.3 vs 0.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 2x more shading units (256 vs 128)
  • Features 32 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

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
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

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 820M and Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 6, 2025 January 5, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Celestial
GPU Codename Krackan Point Panther Lake
Rival Equivalent - Intel Xe3 Graphics (2-Core) -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 332 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 - Intel Core 5 315
- Intel Core 7 350
- Intel Core 5 320
- Intel Core Ultra 5 332
- Intel Core Ultra 5 322
Laptop GPU ranking (62nd and 81st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 128 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 8 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 4 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 2 4
Tensor Cores No 32
Ray-tracing Cores 2 2
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11 GPixel/s 20 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 22 GTexel/s 40 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7 TFLOPS
1.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0
TGP 15 W 25 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 195 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
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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