AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Intel UHD Graphics Gen 11 (24 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month newer Intel UHD Graphics Gen 11 (24 EU) that utilizes 24 pipelines and 192 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 UHD Graphics Gen 11 (24 EU) over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 7
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.8 vs 0.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 5.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K vs 2K)
  • Has 2.3x more shading units (448 vs 192)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
9
-
-
-
The Witcher 3 -
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
9
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High High

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 298
Fire Strike 3394 1060
Wild Life Extreme 2013 729
Night Raid 13085 4543
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 5.76 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 3.54 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.12 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 0.09 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 8.23 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 404.6 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]88 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 278
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 400
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 427
Face Detection (HP) 4386 669
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 1140
Text Classification (SP) 1024 241
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 284
Object Detection (SP) 1452 319
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 907
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 4096
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Intel UHD Graphics Gen 11 (24 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2020 January 11, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Raven Generation 11.0
GPU Codename - Jasper Lake GT1
Successor - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above - Intel Celeron N5100 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 Processor N97
- Intel Processor N100
- Intel Celeron N5100
Laptop GPU ranking (119th and 136th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 350-450 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 750-1200 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 448 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 12
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 6
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 24
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 5-7 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 9-14 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 7 +260%
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 6-10 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 7 nm 10 nm

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 12.1 12
Vulkan - 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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