Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU and AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 683.9x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 154.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 14 nm
  • 8x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 120 Watt
Launch date 2 Sep 2020 vs 4 August 2016
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s vs 154.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1206 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 768
  • 5.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 842 vs 142
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 926 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1206 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines 2048 vs 768
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 842 vs 142

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
142
842
Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 142 842
PassMark - G3D Mark 7965
PassMark - G2D Mark 723
Geekbench - OpenCL 33787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1817.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 99.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1674

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Tiger Lake GT2 Ellesmere
Launch date 2 Sep 2020 4 August 2016
Place in performance rating 1698 389
Type Laptop Desktop
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Price now $109.99
Value for money (0-100) 100.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz 1206 MHz
Compute units 96 32
Core clock speed 300 MHz 926 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 14 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 2048
Pixel fill rate 26.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 105.6 GTexel/s 154.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 120 Watt
Floating-point performance 4.9 TFLOPs
GPU Power 85-110 Watt
Stream Processors 2048
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 3.0 x16
Width IGP
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore