AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 7 months newer 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

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 (96EU) 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 (96EU)
  • 33% higher maximum theoretical performance (2.4 vs 1.8 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 20% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (17K vs 14K)
  • Has 71% more shading units (768 vs 448)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
21
11
-
-
The Witcher 3 -
12
11
-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
19
12
9
-
Far Cry 6 -
14
11
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy -
9
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
14
12
10
-
Ghost of Tsushima -
11
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077 -
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
15
13
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 14
1080p Ultra - 10
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cardsโ€™ 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 1282
Fire Strike 3394 4411
Wild Life Extreme 2013 3119
Night Raid 13085 14097
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 34.5 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 27.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.75 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 1.11 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 0.39 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 55.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 3061.7 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 -
DirectX 11 16 FPS -
DirectX 12 11 FPS -
GPU Compute 1215 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] โ€“ 88 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX Vega 7
No benchmark results yet
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-25 -> op1Geekbench 6 OpenCL16849
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-07-25 -> sevensraysGeekbench 6 OpenCL16620
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-04-15 -> maheshkondrajuGeekbench 6 OpenCL15810

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 1428
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 2420
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 1551
Face Detection (HP) 4386 3685
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 6255
Text Classification (SP) 1024 938
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 1028
Object Detection (SP) 1452 1581
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 4305
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 26119
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)

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 i7 1160G7 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 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 (121st and 125th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 950-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 448 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 96
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
L2 Cache - 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 23-37 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 46-74 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS
1.5-2.4 TFLOPS

Physical

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

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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