AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs Intel Iris Xe, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5 %

10 %

100% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

10 FPS

24 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

15 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

10 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1432

18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1210

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.27

98.45

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763

14184

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956

14105

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8842

12162

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12138

16777

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

Identical

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

81% significantly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

142% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

312% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

289th of 549

198th of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

September 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs Iris Xe benchmarks

For gaming, the Iris Xe graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the Radeon Vega 8 and the Iris Xe have the same base clock speed. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon Vega 8 at 45 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Iris Xe is faster than the Radeon Vega 8.