AMD Radeon 680M vs Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
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AMD Radeon 680M
Rembrandt
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 680M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months newer Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
- 30% higher maximum theoretical performance (4.8 vs 3.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Has 33% more shading units (1024 vs 768)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2327 | - |
| Solar Bay | 9712 | - |
| Port Royal | 1008 | - |
| Fire Strike | 6903 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 4163 | - |
| Night Raid | 27534 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 73.8 img/sec | 66.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.1 img/sec | 28.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 0.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 1.24 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 1.82 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.37 Gpixels/sec | 0.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 105 Gpixels/sec | 102.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 4640 FPS | 6543.8 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 723 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 40 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 21 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 2006 Ops/s | - |
Recent User Tests
Radeon 680M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 26880 |
Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-02-22 (Catt) | Steel Nomad Light | 2669 |
| 📘 2026-01-15 (Ak-Dev) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 64108 |
| 📘 2025-11-08 (Anuj) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 35379 |
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) | 1976 | 2540 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3138 | 7387 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6693 | 4047 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 7213 | 8563 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 21849 | 11171 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1497 | 819 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2579 | 2228 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 2154 | 2725 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 9635 | 7794 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56269 | 34572 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 680M and Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)General
| Vendor | Amd | Intel |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 1, 2022 | December 14, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Xe LPG |
| GPU Codename | Rembrandt | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX Vega 8 | - Radeon 760M |
| Successor | - Radeon 8050S | - Intel Arc 140V |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 135H or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen 7 170 - AMD Ryzen 7 7735U - AMD Ryzen 7 7736U - AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS - AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U - AMD Ryzen 7 6800U - AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS - and 2 more |
- Intel Core Ultra 5 135H - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H |
Laptop GPU ranking (104th and 86th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2200-2400 MHz (configurable) | 2200-2350 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 768 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 48 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 12 | 128 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 12 | 8 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 1536KB shared |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 70-77 GPixel/s | 70-75 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 106-115 GTexel/s | 141-150 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Ring Bus |
| TGP | 15 W | 28 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 208 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | 13.1 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 62.98 MTr/mm² | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | - |
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | - | 2.1 |
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