AMD Radeon 860M vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
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AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
Tiger Lake GT2
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 4 years and 6 months older Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) that utilizes 96 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 860M
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 14 vs 7 FPS
- 29% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.1 vs 2.4 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 32% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (22K vs 17K)
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
- Has 50% more shading units (768 vs 512)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 41 24 20 11 |
21 11 - - |
| The Witcher 3 | 19 18 11 - |
12 11 - - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 39 26 19 9 |
19 12 9 - |
| Far Cry 6 | 31 26 16 9 |
14 11 - - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 16 12 10 - |
9 - - - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 28 27 17 12 |
14 12 10 - |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 16 12 9 - |
11 - - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 19 13 - - |
- - - - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 29 22 15 - |
15 13 9 - |
| 1080p High | 26 | 14 |
| 1080p Ultra | 20 | 10 |
| 1440p Ultra | 14 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2604 | 1282 |
| Solar Bay | 11094 | - |
| Port Royal | 1046 | - |
| Fire Strike | 6772 | 4411 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 5124 | 3119 |
| Night Raid | 29064 | 14097 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 57.2 img/sec | 34.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.5 img/sec | 27.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.83 Gpixels/sec | 0.75 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.16 Gpixels/sec | 1.11 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 0.39 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.35 Gpixels/sec | 0.18 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 97.8 Gpixels/sec | 55.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 3933.5 FPS | 3061.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 920 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 37 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 25 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 2437 Ops/s | - |
Recent User Tests
Radeon 860M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24017 |
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Steel Nomad Light | 2476 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24971 |
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-25 -> op1 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 16849 |
| 📘 2026-07-25 -> sevensrays | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 16620 |
| 📘 2026-04-15 -> maheshkondraju | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 15810 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 2022 | 1428 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3987 | 2420 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6657 | 1551 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 10337 | 3685 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 28437 | 6255 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2326 | 938 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4011 | 1028 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1995 | 1581 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 12031 | 4305 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56710 | 26119 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)General
| Vendor | Amd | Intel |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | August 15, 2020 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Generation 12.1 |
| GPU Codename | Krackan Point | Tiger Lake GT2 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140T | - |
| Successor | - Radeon 8040S | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above | - Intel Core i7 1160G7 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 |
- Intel Core 7 250H - Intel Core 9 270H - Intel Core 7 150U - Intel Core i7 13705H - Intel Core i9 13905H - Intel Core i7 1355U - Intel Core i7 1365U - Intel Core i7 1360P - and 23 more |
Laptop GPU ranking (101st and 125th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 600 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 950-1550 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 512 | 768 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 48 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 24 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 96 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 8 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 1024KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 48 GPixel/s | 23-37 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 96 GTexel/s | 46-74 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Ring Bus |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Intel |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 10 nm |
| Die Size | 233 mm² | 146 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 34 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 145.92 MTr/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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