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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)

Radeon RX Vega 8
VS
Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
Raven
Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)
Ice Lake G7 Gen. 11

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year and 3 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.

  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 Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU) over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 21% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (10K vs 8K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX Vega 8
vs
Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
-
Far Cry 6
20
17
10
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
17
14
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14
13
10
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 16 -
1080p Ultra 12 -
1440p Ultra 9 -
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 1410 -
Fire Strike 4497 -
Wild Life Extreme 2532 -
Night Raid 18010 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 17.7 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 11.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.33 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.46 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 24.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 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 398 -
DirectX 11 10 FPS -
DirectX 12 8 FPS -
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 10003 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) 924 634
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 1141
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 1097
Face Detection (HP) 2819 1794
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 4362
Text Classification (SP) 832 414
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 649
Object Detection (SP) 1040 783
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 2355
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 13058
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 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 7 4800U or above - Intel Core i5 1035G1 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5825U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
- AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS
- AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
- and 8 more		 - Intel Core i7 1068NG7
- Intel Core i5 1035G7
- Intel Core i7 1065G7
Laptop GPU ranking (127th and 120th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 1050-1100 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 64
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-17 GPixel/s 8-9 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 34-35 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +100%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)
1.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 25 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 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 2.0 2.2
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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