Intel Xe embedded in Tiger Lake CPU outperforms Ryzen 7 9HS Vega @ 4900nm iGPU

Intel's big bet right now is the development of its own graphics architecture. It's not the first time the company has tried, but in this case, things are looking quite promising, especially since Raja Koduri is leading the effort. Intel Xe (Gen12) shows great promise, offering a significant performance leap compared to the current Gen9 architecture.

Little is known about the Intel Xe graphics that will be integrated into the Tiger Lake processors. These processors intended for laptops will be released later this year and according to the leak, it performs better than a Vega @ 7nm GPU. Specifically, it is being compared with the integrated graphics in the Ryzen 4000U / H of Renoir architecture.

Intel Xe could outperform Vega @ 7nm iGPUs

The Tiger Lake processor that has been seen has 4 cores and 8 threads with a base frequency of 2.7GHz. This processor would have a Boost frequency of 2.8GHz, which leaves doubts. It could be an engineering processor with Boost mode disabled and then it will either have Boost mode or no Boost mode.

Tiger Lake with Intel's Xe GPU has been compared to the Ryzen 9 4900HS, AMD's most powerful solution. This AMD processor has 8 cores and 16 threads with a base frequency of 3.0GHz and comes in Boost mode at 4.3GHz. Said AMD processor features a Vega @ 7nm that improves performance by 50% over the Vega @ 12nm iGPUs in Picasso CPUs. The Ryzen 9 4900HS features an 8 Compute Unit Vega that is equivalent to 512 Stream Processors @ 1750MHz.

Notably, the AMD CPU is 64% more powerful than the Tiger Lake-U processor. This is normal, not only because the AMD solution has twice as many cores, but also higher frequency. But it is interesting to see how the Xe GPU of the Tiger Lake has 10% more performance than the Vega @ 7nm GPU.

We are talking about preliminary data and they are just a drop in the bucket. Then we will have to see the performance in games, beyond a synthetic benchmark. It is true that it opens the door to a powerful graphics solution that competes with solutions from AMD and NVIDIA. That Intel comes strong to the graphics market is a great thing, improving competitiveness. 

Source: wccftech