AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Intel UHD Graphics 620

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 7 months newer Intel UHD Graphics 620 that utilizes 24 pipelines and 192 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of UHD Graphics 620 over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 5.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 0.4 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 9 vs 3 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (10K vs 5K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (512 vs 192)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
10
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
11
-
-
-
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
RX Vega 8 +286%
1261
Time Spy 1410 361
Fire Strike 4497 1148
Wild Life Extreme 2532 772
Night Raid 18010 5100
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX Vega 8 +98%
10472
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 10.4 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 6.19 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 20.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 769 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
RX Vega 8 +50%
1562
G2D Mark 398 234
DirectX 11 10 FPS 8 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 5 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 433 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]10003 & 39824 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX Vega 8
No benchmark results yet
Intel UHD Graphics 620
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-03 (Mike)GeekBench4394
📘 2026-02-23 (UTYONE)GeekBench4895

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 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 -
Face Detection (HP) 2819 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 -
Text Classification (SP) 832 -
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 -
Object Detection (SP) 1040 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 -
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Intel UHD Graphics 620

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 August 28, 2018
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 Generation 9.5
GPU Codename Raven Whiskey Lake GT2
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - Intel Core i5 8265U 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 i5 10310U
- Intel Core i7 10610U
- Intel Core i7 10810U
- Intel Core i5 8365U
- Intel Core i7 8665U
- Intel Core i3 10110U
- Intel Core i5 8350U
- Intel Core i7 8650U
- and 7 more
Laptop GPU ranking (125th and 135th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 1000-1150 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 3
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 24
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-17 GPixel/s 3 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 24-28 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +450%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
0.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 25 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 7 nm 14 nm
Die Size 210 mm² 49 mm²
Transistor Count 4.94 billion 0.19 billion
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² 3.88 MTr/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 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.1.103
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.2

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