AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 8 months newer Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) that utilizes 48 pipelines and 384 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 Xe G4 (48 EU) over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 7
  • Performs significantly better (up to 70%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 64% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.8 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 76% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K vs 8K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
12
-
-
-
The Witcher 3 -
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
13
9
-
-
Far Cry 6 -
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High Low

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 741
Fire Strike 3394 2345
Wild Life Extreme 2013 1606
Night Raid 13085 10085
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 18.4 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 10.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 0.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 21.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 1269.5 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 893
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 1369
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 1052
Face Detection (HP) 4386 2087
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 3981
Text Classification (SP) 1024 807
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 895
Object Detection (SP) 1452 944
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 2678
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 13752
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)

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 -
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 210H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX
- Intel Processor U300
- Intel Core i5 13420H
- Intel Core i5 12450H
- Intel Core i3 1125G4
- Intel Pentium Gold 7505
- and 1 more
Laptop GPU ranking (120th and 130th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 800-1400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 448 384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 12
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 48
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 10-17 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 19-34 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 7 +64%
1.3-1.8 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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