Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU and AMD Radeon R6 M255DX 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 855 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 768 vs 576
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
Launch date 2 Sep 2020 vs 7 January 2014
Boost clock speed 1100 MHz vs 855 MHz
Pipelines 768 vs 576
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 780 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 780 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU AMD Radeon R6 M255DX
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1252
Geekbench - OpenCL 17123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1927
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3563
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3563
PassMark - G2D Mark 116
PassMark - G3D Mark 605

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Tiger Lake GT2 Jet
Launch date 2 Sep 2020 7 January 2014
Place in performance rating 1422 1190
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz 855 MHz
Compute units 96
Core clock speed 300 MHz 780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 422.4 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 3.379 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1.690 TFLOPS
Pipelines 768 576
Pixel fill rate 26.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 IGP
Width IGP
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 1

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro
Powerplay