iGPU Performance

GPU availability has been improving so iGPU performance has been a little less important, but there are still a lot of situations where people do not need a dedicated GPU, and for those people, I do still like to check out the performance of the built-in GPU which in the case of the new 7000 Series is the first Ryzen generation to have integrated graphics included in all of the CPUs. My first test was an older Cinebench R15 which has an OpenGL benchmark render that tests rendering performance on the GPU side. Here the 7700X and 7600X did extremely well, outperforming all of the CPUs tested previously including the Intel 12^th gen CPUs that were previously at the top.

 

Next, I defaulted to the always consistent 3DMark with both the older Fire Strike benchmark and the newer Time Spy which is DX12. I only used the graphics score, not the total score to take the CPU performance out of the equation as much as possible. I wasn’t sure what to expect overall but it is clear that the RDNA2 graphics built into the Zen 4 CPUs don’t have the same power as the G series of Ryzen CPUs, but in Fire Strike, both CPUs came in below Intel’s 11^th Gen CPUs and in Time Spy they did better falling between the Intel 11^th and 12^th Gen CPUs.

In Unigine Superposition I ran the 1080p medium detail and 720p low detail tests and the results here weren’t much different than the previous tests. The 7600X and 7700X came in right in between the Intel 11^th and 12^th Gen CPUs with the past 2400G and 2200G Ryzen CPUs way out in front. 

Then from there on, I jumped into game tests. Some of our tests are older games but I did also add in a few newer games as well to get an idea of newer games when tested at 1080p and low or medium settings. While both the 7700X and the 7600X have the same iGPU it is interesting to see how the lower base clock speed on the 7700X but higher boost clock speed swaps which CPU is faster from game to game. Well, I shouldn’t say game to game, in all but one game the 7600X was a hair faster than the 7700X with one tie and one faster on the 7700X. I was especially impressed with the performance in TF2 which was beyond smooth and starting to get up into the higher refresh rate performance. Gaming at 1080p was hit and miss across the rest of the games new and old with some demanding games like Far Cry 5 struggling across the board. If you are looking to play more demanding games a dedicated GPU is still going to be the best option or you will at least need to drop down to 720p.