Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 14 nm
  • 4.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 210 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 14 August 2017
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 210 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

  • 3.9x more core clock speed: 1156 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1471 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • 4.9x more texture fill rate: 330.00 GTexel/s vs 67.20 GTexel/s
  • 4.7x more pipelines: 3584 vs 768
Core clock speed 1156 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1471 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Texture fill rate 330.00 GTexel/s vs 67.20 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3584 vs 768

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
PassMark - G3D Mark 13093
PassMark - G2D Mark 768
Geekbench - OpenCL 163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1501

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU (Alder Lake) AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.2 GCN 5.0
Code name Alder Lake GT1 Vega 10
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 14 August 2017
Place in performance rating not rated 224
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1400 MHz 1471 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 768 3584
Pixel fill rate 33.60 GPixel/s 94.00 GP/s
Texture fill rate 67.20 GTexel/s 330.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 210 Watt
Compute units 56
Floating-point performance 10.5 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.5 TFLOPs
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 3584
Texture Units 256
Transistor count 12,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface Ring Bus PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount System Shared 8 GB
Memory bandwidth System Dependent 410 GB/s
Memory bus width System Shared 2048 bit
Memory clock speed System Shared 1600 MHz
Memory type System Shared HBM2

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore