Radeon RX 590 vs Intel UHD Graphics G1

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Review

Radeon RX 590
Intel UHD Graphics G1
Gaming
15
2
Workstation
25
7
AI/ML
17
2
Energy Efficiency
28
79
Quick Comparison Final Score
19
16
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Radeon RX 590 and Intel UHD Graphics G1

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 590

  • + GCN 4.0 architecture
  • + Polaris 30 codename
  • + 8GB GDDR5 memory
  • + PCIe 3.0 x16 interface

Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics G1

  • + Generation 11 architecture
  • + Ice Lake G1 Gen. 11 codename
  • + System Shared memory
  • + Ring Bus interface

Pros & Cons

Radeon RX 590
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Low energy efficiency
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No hardware ray tracing
  • No DLSS upscaling support
  • Older generation architecture

"A budget AMD Radeon RX 590 graphics card with limited performance overall, higher power consumption. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Intel UHD Graphics G1
  • Great energy efficiency
  • No discrete card needed — integrated solution
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No hardware ray tracing
  • Older generation architecture

"A budget Intel UHD Graphics G1 integrated graphics with limited performance overall, excellent energy efficiency. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
42
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1

The Witcher 3

1080p High
47
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
64
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1

Far Cry 6

1080p High
50
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
29
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Call of Duty

1080p High
42
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
25
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
30
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Tomb Raider

1080p High
55
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1
FPS Table
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 42 — — — — — — —
The Witcher 3 47 — — — — — — —
Counter-Strike 2 64 — — — — — — —
Far Cry 6 50 — — — — — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 29 — — — — — — —
Call of Duty 42 — — — — — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 25 — — — — — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 30 — — — — — — —
Tomb Raider 55 — — — — — — —
Average FPS 43——— ————
Average FPS by Resolution
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1
1080p High 57 —
1080p Ultra 43 —
1440p Ultra 28 —
4K Ultra 15 —
Margin of Error Low —

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon RX 590 +1272%
4611
Intel UHD Graphics G1
336
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1
Time Spy 4778 386
Solar Bay — —
Port Royal — —
Fire Strike 16527 1175
Wild Life Extreme 9735 819
Night Raid 62048 5442
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Radeon RX 590 +571%
9293
Intel UHD Graphics G1
1384
Radeon RX 590 Intel UHD Graphics G1
G2D Mark 790 324
DirectX 11 65 FPS 11 FPS
DirectX 12 45 FPS 6 FPS
GPU Compute 3764 Ops/s 813 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Radeon RX 590
487.92
Intel UHD Graphics G1
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Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
GB6 Compute Score 45783 4800
Background Blur 69 img/sec 9.94 img/sec
Face Detection 38.2 img/sec 5.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.75 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.31 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.31 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.38 Gpixels/sec 0.05 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 180.5 Gpixels/sec 14 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6238 FPS 852 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 9064 842
GB6 ML Half Precision 9971 916
GB6 ML Quantized 6293 637
Image Classification (SP) 3307 325
Image Segmentation (HP) 4895 598
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9072 884
Face Detection (HP) 12467 821
Pose Estimation (Q) 43468 2386
Text Classification (SP) 1547 274
Machine Translation (HP) 2504 333
Object Detection (SP) 3746 369
Depth Estimation (Q) 15075 1290
Style Transfer (SP) 96813 6941
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
Vendor Amd Intel
Build Discrete Integrated
Released 15-Nov-18 28-May-19
Case Desktop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Generic
Segment High-end Entry-level
Architecture GCN 4.0 Generation 11
GPU Codename Polaris 30 Ice Lake G1 Gen. 11
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 8500or above -Intel Core i3 1005G1or above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
Base Clock 1469 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 900-1050 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2304 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32
Tensor Cores No
Ray-tracing Cores No
L1 Cache 16KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 49 GPixel/s 7-8 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 222 GTexel/s 14-17 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 7.1 TFLOPS 0.5 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 Ring Bus
TGP 175 W 15 W
Manufacturing GlobalFoundries Intel
Fabrication Process 12 nm 10 nm
Die Size 232 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion
Transistor Density 21.55 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
Memory Type GDDR5 System Shared
API
Specification Radeon RX 590 ↗ Intel UHD Graphics G1 ↗
DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 2.1 2.2
CUDA
Ray Tracing No
DLSS No
DisplayPort 1.4a

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