Integrated Laptop Graphics Card: Guide & Comparison Chart

If you are buying a laptop for gaming , video editing or 3D design work with NO DEDICATED GRAPHICS… you might come across two laptops around the same price with more or less the same CPU performance but with different INTEGRATED graphics.

A good rule of thumb would be to pick the latest or fastest CPU and that will automatically set you up with the best integrated graphics of the two.

However, it´s always helpful to double check. So I made a graph comparing the performance of all integrated GPUs. I explain how the graph is made, what benchmarks I used later. You can use the table of contents to jump straight into the graphs.

Integrated GPU basics

Now because my website is aimed towards people who are not so computer savy. I’m going to go over some basics about iGPUs so they can accurately get the performance of their iGPU. If you want to see the results and performance comparison chart, use the table of contents to jump into it.

It’s common for integrated GPUs to have the same names but their performance might differe depending on:

• Clock rate: It’s common for integrated GPUs to have higher clock speeds across different laptops.
• Shaders/EUs/Cores: EUs (execution units), shaders and cores are terms meaning “processing units”. The more processing units (regardless of name), the faster the performance of an iGPU.

• Generation: Some integrated GPUs share the same name and maybe even the same clock rate but they are from a different generation. On AMD, its usually labeled as (3000/4000) and Intel uses the CPUs generation name.

List of Laptop Integrated GPUs from AMD & Intel (2018 to present)

What follows is a collection of all integrated GPUs found on 2018-2020 laptops from the Intel Core & Ryzen categories (excluding celeron or other CPUs). The right column includes CPUs were these iGPUs are found.

Laptop Integrated GPUs found on AMD CPUs

GPU	Clock Speed	Found in CPUs
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	1400 MHz	Ryzen 3 4300U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (2000/3000)	1200 MHz	Ryzen 3 3300U, Ryzen 3 3000U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (2000/3000)	1200 MHz	Ryzen 5 3500U, Ryzen 5 3550H
AMD Radeon RX Vega 10	1400 MHz	Ryzen 7 3750H, Ryzen 7 3700U
RX Vega 3	1200 MHz	Ryzen 3 3200U, Ryzen 3 3250U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (4000/5000)	1500 MHz	Ryzen 4680U
	1600 MHz	Ryzen 7 4700U, Ryzen 7 4800U, Ryzen 7 4800H
	1800 MHz	Ryzen 5 5600U, Ryzen 5 5600H
	2000 MHz	Ryzen 5 7530U
AMD RX Vega 8 (4000-5000)	1750 MHz	Ryzen 7 4800U, Ryzen 9 4900H, Ryzen 9 4900HS
	1900 MHz	Ryzen 7 5700U
	1950 MHz	Ryzen 7 4980U
	2000 MHz	Ryzen 7730U, Ryzen 7 5800U, Ryzen 7 5800H, Ryzen 7 5800HS
	2100 MHz	Ryzen 9 5900H, Ryzen 9 5900HX, Ryzen 9 5900HS
AMD Radeon 610M	1900 MHz	Ryzen 3 7420U
	2200 MHz	Ryzen 7 7745HX, Ryzen 7 7845HX, Ryzen 9 7845HX, Ryzen 9 7945HX
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (4th/5th)	1500 MHz	Ryzen 5 4600U, Ryzen 5 4600H, Ryzen 3 5300U, Ryzen 5 5500U
	1600 MHz	Ryzen 3 5400U, Ryzen 5 5560U
	1800 MHz	Ryzen 3 7330U
AMD Radeon 740M	2500 MHz	Ryzen 5 7540U
	2800 MHz	Ryzen 5 7545U
AMD Radeon 760M	2600 MHz	Ryzen 5 7640U, Ryzen 5 8640HS
AMD Radeon 780M	2700 MHz	Ryzen 7 7840U, Ryzen 7 8845HS
AMD Radeon 660M	1900 MHz	Ryzen 5 6600U, Ryzen 5 6600H
AMD Radeon 680M	2200 MHz	Ryzen 7 6800H, Ryzen 7 6800U+

 

Laptop Integrated GPUs found on Intel CPUs

GPU	Clock Speed	Found in CPUs
Intel UHD Graphics 620	1000 MHz	Core i3-8130U, Core i5-8250U, Core i5-8350U, Core i3-8100H, Core i5-8300H, Core i3-8145U, Core i3-10110U
	1150 MHz	Core i7-8550U, Core i7-8650U, Core i7-10510U, Core i7-10610U, Core i7-10710U, Core i7-10810U, Core i5-10310U
	1100 MHz	Core i5-10210U
Intel UHD Graphics 630	1000 MHz	Core i5-8300H, Core i5-8400H, Core i7-8750H
	1150 MHz	Core i7-8850H, Core i7-9750H, Core i7-9850H
	1200 MHz	Core i9-8950HK, Core i9-9880H
	1050 MHz	Core i5-9300H
	1100 MHz	Core i5-9400H, Core i5-10400H
	1250 MHz	Core i9-9980HK
Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake)	900 MHz	Core i3-1005G1
	1050 MHz	Core i5-1035G1
Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4	1050 MHz	Core i5-1035G4
Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7	1100 MHz	Core i7-1065G7
Intel UHD Graphics 615	1000 MHz	Core i3-10100H
Intel UHD Graphics Xe 32EUs	1450 MHz	Core i7-11800H, Core i9-11950H, Core i9-11900H
	1650 MHz	Core i9-14900HX
Intel UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs	1550 MHz	Core i5-13650HX
	1500 MHz	Core i5-14450HX
	1300 MHz	Core i5-12450HX
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs	1500 MHz	Core i7-13700H, Core i9-13900HK, Core i7-1360P, Core i7-13800H, Core i9-13900H
	1450 MHz	Core i9-12900HK, Core i7-1280P, Core i9-12900H
	1350 MHz	Core i7-11370H, Core i7-1185G7
	1300 MHz	Core i7-1165G7, Core i7-1355U
Intel UHD Graphics 770	1650 MHz	Core i9-13980HX, Core i9-13950HX
	1500 MHz	Core i5-13600HX, Core i7-13700HX, Core i9-12950HX
	1450 MHz	Core i7-12800HX
	1600 MHz	Core i7-14700HX
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs	1450 MHz	Core i5-1340P
	1250 MHz	Core i5-1334U
	1300 MHz	Core i5-1135G7, Core i5-1145G7, Core i5-11300H, Core i5-12500H, Core i5-1240P
Intel UHD Graphics 64EUs	1250 MHz	Core i3-1315U
	1100 MHz	Core i3-1215U
Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs	1250 MHz	Core i3-1115G4, Core i3-1125G4
Intel Arc 8-Core iGPU	2250 MHz	Ultra 7 155H
	2350 MHz	Ultra 9 185H 16C
Intel Graphics 4-Core iGPU (Arc)	1850 MHz	Intel Ultra 5-125U

 

Laptop Integrated GPU Performance Comparison

To test the relative performance of iGPUs we will use benchmarks.

Benchmarks are just tests to see how well a hardware performs. Now there are several different benchmarks but for this post we will focus on 3D Mark Time Spy benchmarks because:

• Primarily measures how well the GPU handles complex 3D scenes, textures, shading, lighting, and rendering.
• Ignores CPU and other hardware into the results and ONLY FOCUSES on measuring the raw power of the GPU.
• It is ALSO relevant for 3D work & accelerate effects in video editing and photo editing.
• Unlike other benchmarks (3DMark Fire Strike Graphics) it uses DirectX 12  (latest API for the latest games).

 

Note: We will present the results in three parts AMD, Intel and AMD vs Intel because the graph is too big. Note that this should not be the only factor for performance comparison but rather to get an stimate of how much faster is a GPU relative to others. You must take into account other factors which I discuss shortly after.

 

AMD iGPUs Performance (Laptop)

 

Intel iGPUs Performance (Laptop)

AMD vs Intel GPUs iGPU Performance Comparison 

 

 

How were the results obtained?

I took the results for a iGPU at a given clock rate with the specified number of processing units and calculated the median from both notebookcheck and 3DMark website. The median is a much better measurement because unlike the average it’s not influenced by the the outliers (results which are not common.

When there was NO benchmarks for a given GPU (which is usually the case for integrated GPUs running at higher clock speeds or more processing units), I extrapolated the values based on faster clock speeds and lower clock speeds graphics score values.

Note: The performance of each integrated GPU will depend on the power supplied to the CPU (thus the iGPU). Higher power supplied means it can run at higher clock speeds. RAM and the presence of a dedicated GPU can also affect the benchmark scores but we tried to minimize these effects by taking the median and ignoring outliers (systems that scored too high).

 

 

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Miguel Salas

I am physicist and electrical engineer. My knowledge in computer software and hardware stems for my years spent doing research in optics and photonics devices and running simulations through various programming languages. My goal was to work for the quantum computing research team at IBM but Im now working with Astrophysical Simulations through Python. Most of the science related posts are written by me, the rest have different authors but I edited the final versions to fit the site's format.

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