AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 8 months newer 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
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 Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 7
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
  • Has 43% more shading units (640 vs 448)

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 1067 1230
Fire Strike 3394 4196
Wild Life Extreme 2013 2124
Night Raid 13085 15167
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 33.7 img/sec 31 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 23.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.61 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 36.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 2493.2 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 568 392
DirectX 11 16 FPS 16 FPS
DirectX 12 11 FPS 12 FPS
GPU Compute 1215 Ops/s 1158 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]88 & 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) 1323 1149
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 1796
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 1394
Face Detection (HP) 4386 2775
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 5476
Text Classification (SP) 1024 981
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 905
Object Detection (SP) 1452 1277
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 3737
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 22348
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2020 August 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Raven Generation 12.1
GPU Codename - Tiger Lake GT2
Successor - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- and 4 more
- 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 (119th and 132nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 850-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 448 640
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 20
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 80
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L2 Cache - 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 17-30 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 34-60 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS
1.1-1.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 7 nm 10 nm
Die Size - 146 mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12.1 12
Vulkan - 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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