AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 4 years newer Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) that utilizes 32 pipelines and 256 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 (32 EU) over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 23% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (10K vs 8K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (512 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
14
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
13
-
-
-
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 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 1410 670
Fire Strike 4497 2365
Wild Life Extreme 2532 1619
Night Raid 18010 9688
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 18.6 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 12.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 20.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 1203.8 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

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) 924 765
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 1214
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 981
Face Detection (HP) 2819 1893
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 3752
Text Classification (SP) 832 847
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 1028
Object Detection (SP) 1040 866
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 2410
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 11417
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 January 4, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 Generation 12.2
GPU Codename Raven Alder Lake GT1
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX Vega 7
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - Intel Core i5 11500H 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 3 N355
- Intel Core i7 12650HX
- Intel Core i9 14900HX
- Intel Core i3 N300
- Intel Processor N200
- Intel Core i3 N305
- Intel Core i9 13900HX
- Intel Core i7 11850H
- and 4 more
Laptop GPU ranking (125th and 131st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 1450-1650 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L2 Cache - 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-17 GPixel/s 12-13 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 23-26 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +175%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
0.7-0.8 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 -

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 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4a

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