AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
Raven
Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Tiger Lake GT2
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 2 years and 7 months newer Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) that utilizes 48 pipelines and 384 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (10K vs 8K)
- Has 33% more shading units (512 vs 384)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 25 11 10 - |
12 - - - |
| The Witcher 3 | 9 10 - - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 27 16 12 - |
13 9 - - |
| Far Cry 6 | 20 17 10 - |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 11 - - - |
- |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 22 17 14 - |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 12 9 - - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | - - - - |
- |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 14 13 10 - |
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| 1080p High | 16 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 12 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 9 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1410 | 741 |
| Fire Strike | 4497 | 2345 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2532 | 1606 |
| Night Raid | 18010 | 10085 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 21.2 img/sec | 18.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 10.9 img/sec | 10.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.34 Gpixels/sec | 0.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.65 Gpixels/sec | 0.47 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.51 Gpixels/sec | 0.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.13 Gpixels/sec | 0.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 34.9 Gpixels/sec | 21.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 1322.9 FPS | 1269.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 398 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 10 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 8 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 861 Ops/s | - |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 924 | 893 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 1148 | 1369 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 2211 | 1052 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 2819 | 2087 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 7106 | 3981 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 832 | 807 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1021 | 895 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1040 | 944 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 3885 | 2678 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 14495 | 13752 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)General
| Vendor | Amd | Intel |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | February 13, 2018 | August 15, 2020 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Entry-level | Entry-level |
| Architecture | GCN 5.0 | Generation 12.1 |
| GPU Codename | Raven | Tiger Lake GT2 |
| 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 5 210H - Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX - Intel Processor U300 - Intel Core i5 13420H - Intel Core i5 12450H - Intel Core i3 1125G4 - Intel Pentium Gold 7505 - and 1 more |
Laptop GPU ranking (125th and 129th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) | 800-1400 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 512 | 384 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 24 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 8 | 12 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 48 |
| 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 | 10-17 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 35-67 GTexel/s | 19-34 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | IGP | Ring Bus |
| TGP | 25 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Intel |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 10 nm |
| Die Size | 210 mm² | 146 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 4.94 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 23.52 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 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| Ray Tracing | No | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
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