Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) vs AMD Radeon 680M

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) and AMD Radeon 680M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

  • 6.7x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 57% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 67.20 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 10 nm
  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 45 Watt
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 2200 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s vs 67.20 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 10 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 680M

Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) AMD Radeon 680M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 378
Geekbench - OpenCL 26608

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) AMD Radeon 680M

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.2 RDNA 2.0
Code name Alder Lake GT1 Rembrandt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating not rated 1232

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1400 MHz 2200 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 6 nm
Pipelines 768 768
Pixel fill rate 33.60 GPixel/s 70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 67.20 GTexel/s 105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 15 Watt
Compute units 12
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 3.379 TFLOPS
Transistor count 13100 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP IGP
Interface Ring Bus PCIe 4.0 x8

API support

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount System Shared
Memory bandwidth System Dependent
Memory bus width System Shared
Memory clock speed System Shared
Memory type System Shared