AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

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

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 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs significantly better (up to 5.6x) 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 2.6x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (10K vs 3K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (512 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
10
-
-
-
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 308
Fire Strike 4497 1103
Wild Life Extreme 2532 745
Night Raid 18010 4719
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 +163%
10472
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 8.99 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 5.66 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 10 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 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 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) 924 406
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 609
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 530
Face Detection (HP) 2819 951
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 1936
Text Classification (SP) 832 538
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 542
Object Detection (SP) 1040 451
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 1237
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 5464
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 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 7 4800U 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 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 (127th and 145th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 750-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 16
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 3-6 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 6-12 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +450%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
0.2-0.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 25 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 1.3 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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