Radeon Vega 7 vs Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Place in the ranking	623	532
Place by popularity	not in top-100	18
Power efficiency	14.03	11.37
Architecture	Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	DG1	Cezanne
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	31 October 2020 (4 years ago)	13 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	448
Core clock speed	no data	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	79.20	53.20
Floating-point processing power	2.534 TFLOPS	1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs	24	8
TMUs	48	28

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	IGP
Width	IGP	no data
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	LPDDR4X	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	4.3 GB/s	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	68.26 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
Vulkan	1.2	1.2

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	14−16 −57.1%	22 +57.1%
1440p	21−24 −52.4%	32 +52.4%
4K	10−12 −60%	16 +60%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	5.12	7.47
Recency	31 October 2020	13 April 2021
Chip lithography	10 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	45 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics MAX has 80% lower power consumption.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has a 45.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 months, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the Iris Xe Graphics MAX in performance tests.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics MAX is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.