Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) and AMD Radeon HD 6970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 880 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 40 nm
  • 22x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 550 Watt
Launch date 28 May 2019 vs 14 December 2010
Boost clock speed 1100 MHz vs 880 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 550 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970

  • 24x more pipelines: 1536 vs 64
  • Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5372 vs 3751
  • Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5372 vs 3751
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1536 vs 64
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5372 vs 3751
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5372 vs 3751
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716 vs 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716 vs 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 3353

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3751
5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3751
5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3714
3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3714
3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3358
Name Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) AMD Radeon HD 6970
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3751 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3751 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 3358
PassMark - G3D Mark 2836
PassMark - G2D Mark 429
Geekbench - OpenCL 35739
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.676
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 920.398
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 52.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 273.175
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) AMD Radeon HD 6970

Essentials

Architecture Intel Gen. 11 (Ice Lake) TeraScale 3
Code name Ice Lake G7 Gen. 11 Cayman
Launch date 28 May 2019 14 December 2010
Place in performance rating 670 676
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $369
Price now $94.99
Value for money (0-100) 48.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz 880 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 40 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 2.25 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1.12 TFLOPS
Pipelines 64 1536
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 550 Watt
Floating-point performance 2,703.4 gflops
Texture fill rate 84.5 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,640 million

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA

API support

DirectX 12.1 11
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Memory type DDR4 DDR5
Shared memory Yes
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz

Technologies

Quick Sync
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin