AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Intel UHD Graphics 750

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 2 years and 11 months newer Intel UHD Graphics 750 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of UHD Graphics 750 over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 0.7 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 9 vs 4 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 56% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (10K vs 6K)
  • 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
-
13
-
-
-
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
RX Vega 8 +187%
1261
Time Spy 1410 645
Fire Strike 4497 2374
Wild Life Extreme 2532 1567
Night Raid 18010 9692
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 +56%
10472
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 14.8 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 9.29 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.26 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.41 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.26 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 16.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 955.1 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
1562
1684
G2D Mark 398 375
DirectX 11 10 FPS 10 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 7 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 736 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 10003 & 1825 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 -
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 750

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Raven Rocket Lake GT1
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon 610M
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - Intel Core i5 11600K 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 11600K
- Intel Core i9 11900
- Intel Core i9 11900K
- Intel Core i7 11700
- Intel Core i7 11700K
Laptop GPU ranking (127th and 147th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 750-1300 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 32
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 24-42 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 48-83 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +214%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
0.4-0.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 25 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 7 nm 14 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 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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