Intel's gen11 gpu reveals its spectacular performance over gen9

Intel's Gen11 iGPU benchmarks have been revealed at GFXBench and CompuBench finally, showing an impressive performance improvement over the iGPU HD 620 (Gen9). The mysterious graphics processor named Iris Plus Graphics 940 goes above other 15W chips, like Intel's own Core i5-8250U and matches AMD's Ryzen 2700U and Ryzen 5 2400G that come with integrated graphics.

Gen11 promises a good performance improvement over Gen9 integrated graphics

Intel offers up to 1 teraflop of 32-bit power and 2 teraflops of 16-bit floating point with its Gen11 iGPU. The chipmaker's goal is to provide a more decent gaming experience for its consumers. This, in the long term, can lead to cheaper laptops, since manufacturers would not have to incorporate third-party entry-level graphics cards, such as Nvidia's MX series.

Performance tests against the HD 620

Tests	Type	Core i5-8250U - UHD 620	Iris Plus Graphics 940	Difference
Aztec Ruins Normal Tier	Offscreen	1621	3453	113.02%
Aztec Ruins High Tier	Offscreen	637	1403	120.25%
Car chase	Offscreen	1697	2910	71.48%
1440p Manhattan 3.1.1	Offscreen	1327	2459	85.31%
Manhattan 3.1	Offscreen	2428	3855	58.77%
Manhattan	Offscreen	3692	7063	91.31%
T-Rex	Offscreen	6786	10232	50.78%
Tessellation	Offscreen	9217	14541	57.76%
ALU 2	Offscreen	5348	12411	132.07%
Driver Overhead 2	Offscreen	6692	4433	-33.76%
Texturing	Offscreen	9078	17685	94.81%
Global	76.53%

When the new Intel graphics processor is compared to the HD 620, the difference is a minimum of 50% and a maximum of 132% according to the test, except for the particular case of Driver Overhead 2 with its -33%. On average, Gen11 overrides the old Intel option with 77.41% more performance in GFXBench 5.0.

Performance tests against Vega 11

Tests	Type	Ryzen 5 2400G with Vega 11	Iris Plus Graphics 940	Differences
Aztec Ruins Normal Tier	Offscreen	3901	3453	-11.48%
Aztec Ruins High Tier	Offscreen	1651	1403	-15.02%
Car chase	Offscreen	3115	2910	-6.58%
1440p Manhattan 3.1.1	Offscreen	2328	2459	5.63%
Manhattan 3.1	Offscreen	3544	3855	8.78%
Manhattan	Offscreen	3386	7063	108.59%
T-Rex	Offscreen	11113	10232	-7.93%
Tessellation	Offscreen	17803	14541	-18.32%
ALU 2	Offscreen	15353	12411	-19.16%
Driver Overhead 2	Offscreen	4012	4433	10.49%
Texturing	Offscreen	27824	17685	-36.44%
Global	1.69%

Although the improvements over Gen9 are impressive, if compared to the Vega 11 iGPUs, we see that 'only' with continues to match the performance of AMD's integrated graphics. This seems like a good advance, but perhaps more was expected in this regard, given the years it has taken to get its 11th generation ready, let's remember that Gen9 began its journey in 2015.

According to Intel's latest estimates, the Ice Lake processors that will come with Gen11 graphics should hit the market in time for the holiday season.

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