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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

Radeon RX Vega 6
VS
Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
Raven
Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Tiger Lake Xe

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 6 with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 3 years and 4 months newer Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU) that utilizes 16 pipelines and 128 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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 (16 EU) over RX Vega 6
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 6
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.4 vs 0.4 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (8K vs 3K)
  • Has 3x more shading units (384 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX Vega 6
vs
UHD Graphics (16 EU)

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
13
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-
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
19
13
10
-
10
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
12
9
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
16
11
10
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
11
10
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 11 -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low 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 839 308
Fire Strike 2697 1103
Wild Life Extreme 1635 745
Night Raid 11031 4719
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 17.6 img/sec 8.99 img/sec
Face Detection 9.06 img/sec 5.66 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.28 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.38 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 27.6 Gpixels/sec 10 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 879 FPS 567.5 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 329 -
DirectX 11 9 FPS -
DirectX 12 6 FPS -
GPU Compute 647 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 495 samples
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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) 986 406
Image Segmentation (HP) 1173 609
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2200 530
Face Detection (HP) 2979 951
Pose Estimation (Q) 6497 1936
Text Classification (SP) 632 538
Machine Translation (HP) 1306 542
Object Detection (SP) 1093 451
Depth Estimation (Q) 3935 1237
Style Transfer (SP) 13291 5464
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 6 and Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 1, 2018 May 10, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Raven Tiger Lake Xe
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 4600H 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 Ultra 5 225
- Intel Core i5 12450HX
- Intel Core i5 14450HX
- Intel Processor N95
- Intel Core i5 13450HX
- Intel Core i5 13500HX
- Intel Core i7 13650HX
- Intel Celeron N5095
- and 3 more
Laptop GPU ranking (132nd and 147th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-1800 MHz (configurable) 750-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 16
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 3-6 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 26-43 GTexel/s 6-12 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 6 +250%
0.8-1.4 TFLOPS
UHD Graphics (16 EU)
0.2-0.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 6-15 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 7 nm 10 nm
Die Size 210 mm² -
Transistor Count 4.94 billion -
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² -

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 -

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4a

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