AMD Renoir Graphics Beating Out Intel Icelake/Gen11 On Linux

Besides SuperTuxKart, one of the only other test cases encountered where the Ice Lake graphics performance came out ahead was when stressing the Java OpenGL pipeline and the text rendering sub-test yielding much better performance on the Intel side... Potentially though due to a missed driver optimization by RadeonSI.

The Ice Lake win for faster Java text rendering may very well come down to an area where the Radeon driver could just be better optimized as with the rest of the Java OpenGL tests, the Ryzen 7 4700U won by a landslide.

With this basic set of Linux graphics tests run today, the Ryzen 7 4700U was coming out about 39% faster than the Core i7 1065G7 with this given set of tests. The Ryzen 7 4700U was nearly faster across the board except for Java text rendering and SuperTuxKart being the only game of the few tested where it did better with Intel Gen11 + Iris Gallium3D.

The Ryzen 7 4700U graphics are quite capable for any desktop task and other light to moderate workloads but gamers especially will be best off with a discrete GPU. The Renoir graphics experience on Linux has been stable so far throughout testing with the main caveat at this point just being to ensure you are on Linux 5.6~5.7 for working/optimal support. More AMD Ryzen 7 4700U tests coming up on Phoronix.