Intel iris xe graphics equivalent

[rinaldo00]

I know nothing about laptop iGPUs but my friend wants to buy this laptop to play Baldur's Gate 3. The CPU looks fine but the iGPU seems weak:

Here are the specs for Baldur's Gate 3:

Minimum:
Processor: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 150 GB available space


Recommended:
Processor: Intel i7 8700K / AMD r5 3600
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT (8GB+ of VRAM)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 150 GB available space

 

[pippenainteasy]

Neither the Iris Xe nor the fastest iGPU (7940hs) is anywhere close enough to meet those minimum specs (either a GTX 970 or a RX 480).

He would need a laptop with discrete GPU, or an e-GPU.

 

[rinaldo00]

Neither the Iris Xe nor the fastest iGPU (7940hs) is anywhere close enough to meet those minimum specs (either a GTX 970 or a RX 480).

He would need a laptop with discrete GPU, or an e-GPU.

That is what I thought thanks for confirming it.

 

[Axman]

Pretty sure the AMD 780M graphics are actually a little better than the RX 480, but I'm going off memory, here. IIRC the system can allocate up to 4GB of memory to it.

780M is 12 cores, so 24 RDNA2 compute units, running at 2800 MHz, compared to 36 Polaris compute units running at ~1200 MHz.

Easily as good as a six-year-old GPU I'm sure. The Steam Deck chooches with 8 RDNA2 cores at 1600 MHz (it also has up to 4GB of memory). But it would just be clearing the minimum recommendations.

Intel's Iris, though, that's a different ball of wax, I don't think it really compares to AMD's onboard graphics, but I haven't looked into it specifically.