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AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

Radeon RX Vega 7
VS
Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 3 years and 11 months newer Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) that utilizes 112 pipelines and 896 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AI
  5. Specs
  6. Comments

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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Arc iGPU (7-Cores) over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 1.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 7 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 89% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (27K vs 14K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (896 vs 448)
GPU
RX Vega 7
vs
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

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 1067 -
Fire Strike 3394 -
Wild Life Extreme 2013 -
Night Raid 13085 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX Vega 7
14408
Arc iGPU (7-Cores) +89%
27187
Background Blur 33.7 img/sec 44.2 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 21.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 1.04 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 1.86 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 115.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 5380.5 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 568 -
DirectX 11 16 FPS -
DirectX 12 11 FPS -
GPU Compute 1215 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 88 samples
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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
RX Vega 7
3157
Arc iGPU (7-Cores) +33%
4189
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX Vega 7
4191
Arc iGPU (7-Cores) +54%
6443
GB6 ML Quantized
RX Vega 7
2365
Arc iGPU (7-Cores) +28%
3036
Image Classification (SP) 1323 2092
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 5680
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 3418
Face Detection (HP) 4386 7436
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 11114
Text Classification (SP) 1024 732
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 1896
Object Detection (SP) 1452 2158
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 6898
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 39845
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2020 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Raven Xe LPG
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon 760M
Successor - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) - Intel Arc 130V
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- and 4 more		 - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
Laptop GPU ranking (121st and 85th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 2200 MHz
Shading Units 448 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 112
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No 7
L1 Cache - 1344KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 53 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 7
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS
Arc iGPU (7-Cores) +117%
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 28 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm

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 12.1 12
Vulkan - 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 2.1

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