UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) vs UHD Graphics 615

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Combined performance score

UHD Graphics 615
1.57

UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) outperforms UHD Graphics 615 by 45% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking914810
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.95no data
ArchitectureGen. 9 Amber Lake (2018)Gen. 12 (2021)
GPU code nameKaby-Lake GT2Tiger Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date30 August 2018 (5 years old)30 March 2021 (2 years old)
Current price$518 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2416
Core clock speed300 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)5 Wattno data
Texture fill rate25.20no data

Size and compatibility

Information on UHD Graphics 615 and UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x1no data

Memory

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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus width64/128 Bitno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
Shared memory++

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync++

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.1.103no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

UHD Graphics 615 1.57
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 2.28
+45.2%

UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) outperforms UHD Graphics 615 by 45% in our combined benchmark results.


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

UHD Graphics 615 3813
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 7190
+88.6%

UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) outperforms UHD Graphics 615 by 89% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

UHD Graphics 615 1221
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 1654
+35.5%

UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) outperforms UHD Graphics 615 by 35% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

UHD Graphics 615 819
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 1203
+46.9%

UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) outperforms UHD Graphics 615 by 47% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

UHD Graphics 615 6583
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 7982
+21.3%

UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) outperforms UHD Graphics 615 by 21% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

UHD Graphics 615 57024
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 64701
+13.5%

UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) outperforms UHD Graphics 615 by 13% in 3DMark Ice Storm GPU.

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 HD10
−10%
11
+10%

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−100%
2−3
+100%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−900%
10
+900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−11
−10%
10−12
+10%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Far Cry 5 0−1 8
Forza Horizon 4 2−3
−150%
5−6
+150%
Hitman 3 2−3
−100%
4−5
+100%
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
−250%
7
+250%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7−8
+0%
7
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−100%
2−3
+100%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−300%
4−5
+300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−11
−10%
10−12
+10%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Far Cry 5 0−1 7
Forza Horizon 4 2−3
−150%
5−6
+150%
Hitman 3 2−3
−100%
4−5
+100%
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%
Metro Exodus 1
−200%
3−4
+200%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7−8
−14.3%
8−9
+14.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4−5
−125%
9
+125%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−100%
2−3
+100%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−300%
4−5
+300%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Far Cry 5 0−1 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 2−3
−150%
5−6
+150%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4−5
−25%
5
+25%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Hitman 3 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Horizon Zero Dawn 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 0−1 1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−100%
4−5
+100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Hitman 3 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
+0%
8−9
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 0−1 1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 0−1 1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 1−2
Far Cry 5 3−4
−33.3%
4−5
+33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%

This is how UHD Graphics 615 and UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) compete in popular games:

1080p resolution:

  • UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) is 10% faster than UHD Graphics 615

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Battlefield 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) is 900% faster than the UHD Graphics 615.

All in all, in popular games:

  • UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) is ahead in 30 tests (79%)
  • there's a draw in 8 tests (21%)

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 1.57 2.28
Recency 30 August 2018 30 March 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

The UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) is our recommended choice as it beats the UHD Graphics 615 in performance tests.


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