AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 6 with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months newer Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU) that utilizes 64 pipelines and 512 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 Plus Graphics G7 (64EU) over RX Vega 6
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 6
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • 27% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.4 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)
  • Has 33% more shading units (512 vs 384)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
13
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-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
19
13
10
-
-
Far Cry 6
12
9
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
16
11
10
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-
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
11
10
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-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 11 -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low 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 839 -
Fire Strike 2697 -
Wild Life Extreme 1635 -
Night Raid 11031 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 17.6 img/sec 17.7 img/sec
Face Detection 9.06 img/sec 11.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.28 Gpixels/sec 0.33 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec 0.46 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.38 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 27.6 Gpixels/sec 24.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 879 FPS 1496 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 329 -
DirectX 11 9 FPS -
DirectX 12 6 FPS -
GPU Compute 647 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5]495 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) 986 634
Image Segmentation (HP) 1173 1141
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2200 1097
Face Detection (HP) 2979 1794
Pose Estimation (Q) 6497 4362
Text Classification (SP) 632 414
Machine Translation (HP) 1306 649
Object Detection (SP) 1093 783
Depth Estimation (Q) 3935 2355
Style Transfer (SP) 13291 13058
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 6 and Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 1, 2018 May 28, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 Generation 11
GPU Codename Raven Ice Lake G7 Gen. 11
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 4600H or above - Intel Core i5 1035G1 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 3 7330U
- AMD Ryzen 3 5425U
- AMD Ryzen 3 5300G
- AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
- AMD Ryzen 3 4300G
- AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
- Intel Core i7 1068NG7
- Intel Core i5 1035G7
- Intel Core i7 1065G7
Laptop GPU ranking (122nd and 118th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-1800 MHz (configurable) 1050-1100 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 64
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-14 GPixel/s 8-9 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 26-43 GTexel/s 34-35 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 6 +27%
0.8-1.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 7 nm 10 nm
Die Size 210 mm² -
Transistor Count 4.94 billion -
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature - 100°C

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 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 2.0 2.2
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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