[Hardware] Intel Tiger Lake Xe GPU With 768 Cores & 1.3 GHz Clocks Benchmarked – As Fast As NVIDIA’s GeForce MX350, Crushes AMD’s 7nm ‘Renoir’ Vega GPU

[Dr.Drako]

Intel's Xe GPU featured on 11th Generation Tiger Lake CPUs has once again been benchmarked and this time the chip performs on par with NVIDIA's fastest MX series discrete graphics that are featured inside most mainstream laptops.

Intel Tiger Lake Xe GPU With 96 EUs Matches The NVIDIA GeForce MX350 Discrete GPU & Blazes Past AMD's 7nm Vega iGPU In Latest Benchmarks
The various benchmark entries come from TUM_APISAK & Rogame (via Videocardz) which show the performance versus NVIDIA & AMD based mobility based graphics chips for mainstream and entry-level laptops.

The specific Xe GPU which has been tested is part of the Core i7-1165G7 configuration. Do consider that the Core i7-1165G7 is not the fastest Tiger Lake CPU configuration as that title belongs to Core i7-1185G7. Regardless, the Xe GPU is based on the Gen 12 GPU architecture which features 96 EUs which make up 768 cores in total. This chip is clocked at 1.3 GHz and the chip shares its power with the entire Tiger Lake SOC which has a base TDP of 15W that is configurable up to 28W. The Xe GPU was tested with LPDD4x memory which operates at 4266 MHz.

Intel Tiger Lake Xe GPU vs NVIDIA Pascal GeForce MX350 Graphics Performance:
The first benchmark comparison is between the Intel Xe GPU with 96 EUs (768 cores) and the NVIDIA GeForce MX350 with 5 SMs (640 cores). The NVIDIA MX350 not only features a higher graphics frequency of 1.47 GHz but also comes equipped with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory which delivers higher bandwidth specifically to the GPU itself.

In the Geekbench 4 OpenCL benchmark, the Tiger Lake Xe GPU scores 59845 points while NVIDIA's GeForce MX350 scores 59828 points. There's no difference in terms of performance but for Intel's Xe GPU, this is a huge feat considering it is offering the same performance of a discrete tier GPU while being constrained in terms of bandwidth and power.

What's interesting is how each test shows different results between the two GPUs tested. For Intel's part, they do really well in most of the sub-tests, especially the Gaussian Blue benchmark but NVIDIA manages a huge lead in the Particle Physics test which offsets the overall gains achieved by Intel's Xe chip.

Also what's interesting is that a leaked entry of the Apple A12Z Bionic GPU showed up in the Geekbench 5 database a few days ago too and was spotted by Rogame. The Apple GPU which will be embedded within its Macbook line is shown slightly slower than the GeForce MX350. The MX350 scores 13520 while Apple's A12Z Bionic GPU scores 11315. That's about a 20% lead for the NVIDIA GPU. The Pascal MX350 configuration used here is the lower-end SKU which operates at 15W and has a clock speed of 936 MHz compared to 1.47 GHz of the 25W variant. The A12Z features 8 CU and 1 GHz clocks.

I know GB4 and GB5 are vastly different benchmarks but if Intel's Xe GPU scale just as well in the GB5 tests as they do against the MX350 in GB4, then Intel will also have a comfortable lead over Apple's Bionic GPU.

 

Intel Tiger Lake Xe 96 EU vs Tiger Lake Xe 80 EU Graphics Performance:

The benchmarks also compare the Intel Tiger Lake Xe 96 EU (Core i7-1165G7) with the 80 EU (Core i5-1135G7) configuration. The Core i5-1135G7 is a lower clocked SKU when it comes to the CPU side and also features a slightly toned down Xe GPU. The 80 EUs represent 640 cores that match the GeForce MX350 but still at 1.30 GHz (vs 1.47 GHz on GeForce MX350).