AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 8 months older Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU) that utilizes 64 pipelines and 512 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU) over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 7
  • 64% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.8 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Achieves 66% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K vs 8K)

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
Background Blur 33.7 img/sec 17.7 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 11.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.33 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 0.46 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 24.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 1496 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

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) 1323 634
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 1141
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 1097
Face Detection (HP) 4386 1794
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 4362
Text Classification (SP) 1024 414
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 649
Object Detection (SP) 1452 783
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 2355
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 13058
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (64EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2020 May 28, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Raven Generation 11
GPU Codename - Ice Lake G7 Gen. 11
Successor - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above - Intel Core i5 1035G1 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 i7 1068NG7
- Intel Core i5 1035G7
- Intel Core i7 1065G7
Laptop GPU ranking (121st and 120th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 1050-1100 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 448 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 64
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 8-9 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 34-35 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 7 +64%
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 7 nm 10 nm
Max. Temperature - 100°C

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 12.1 12
Vulkan - 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 2.2 2.2
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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