**Frame Generation Performance on Intel Iris Xe Graphics**
I recently had the opportunity to test frame generation performance on Intel Iris Xe graphics, specifically on two different chips: the 78M and the 890M. This process involved benchmarking various games at different resolutions and settings to see how well the frame generation feature could improve performance.
Firstly, I tested Gen in medium settings on the 78M chip. In this scenario, we can go from medium up to very high settings while still maintaining a balance with scaling going with frame gen enabled on and achieving an average of 80 FPS. This demonstrates the capabilities of frame generation on Iris Xe graphics.
Next, I wanted to test Starfield, a game that is usually tested at 1080p resolution with the 78M chip. However, with the new 890M chip, we don't need to enable frame gen and can instead take it up to high settings, achieving an average of 65 FPS. This shows that the 890M chip can deliver better performance than the 78M in certain situations.
Moving on to another test, I set Starfield to 1080p low settings with FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) set to 50% scale. While trying different frame rates for FSR, we saw that at 80% scale, we were under 60 FPS. This highlights the limitations of FSR on Iris Xe graphics.
In a further test, I used the built-in benchmark tool to check performance with 1080p low settings and FSR set to 60% scale. The results showed an average frame rate of around 61 FPS. Although not ideal, this still demonstrates the potential for improved performance with frame generation enabled on Iris Xe graphics.
Next up was Witcher 3, a game that has been tested on Iris Xe graphics in the past. However, I decided to test it again using the 890M chip and found that we could achieve an average of around 67 FPS at high settings. This is particularly impressive considering the game's demands for smooth performance.
Elden Ring was another game I wanted to test, hoping to run it smoothly at 1080p high settings. However, due to its demanding nature, I had to drop the resolution down to medium to avoid frame rates dipping below 60 FPS. With VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) enabled, the experience felt smooth and lag-free.
Finally, I tested Hogwarts Legacy, a game that has been known for its performance issues on certain hardware configurations. However, running it at 1080p medium settings with FSR set to balance resulted in an average of 72 FPS. This shows that frame generation can improve performance even in games with notorious performance issues.
Last but not least, I tested Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, a game that is typically played on high-end hardware. Running it at 1080p medium settings with FSR set to balance achieved an average of over 60 FPS. This demonstrates the ability of frame generation to improve performance even in demanding games.
Lastly, I tested Cyberpunk 2077, a game that has been notoriously difficult for Iris Xe graphics to run smoothly. However, running it at 1080p low settings with FSR set to balance resulted in an average of around 84 FPS on the 890M chip. This is particularly impressive considering the game's demands for high-performance rendering.
In conclusion, frame generation performance on Intel Iris Xe graphics has shown promise, especially with the newer 890M chip. By enabling frame generation and using various techniques to optimize performance, we can achieve significant improvements in frame rates across a range of games.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be testing out bazy on the allnew ryzen AI 9hx 370 this is something that I've been wanting to test since the release of ryzen AI and I can tell you right now that yeah we are seeing some really great performance set of this and it really comes down to the chipset and the operating system we're using if you're not familiar with bite basically what we've got here is an operating system that's very similar to the one running on the steam deck so we can install this on a desktop PC laptop other handhelds like the Rog Alix but in this video I wanted to test it on this new Mini PC from belink known as the sc9 now with this I do have a little bit of overclock going with that HX 370 and the allnew Radeon 890 Mii GPU and just to give you an idea here with this Mini PC we've got 32 GB of LP ddr5x with an 8,000 MHz overclo only up 500 MHz from this stock 7500 but it does make a bit of a difference with this igpu we've also got that Radeon 890m this is based on rdna 3.5 with 16 compute units and I've overclocked this up to 3100 mahz of course we're going to be running bazy OS on this PC jumping right into it this little system has been working really well and as soon as I installed everything we had Wi-Fi Bluetooth everything's working just fine on this system I'm using an Xbox controller right now I've press the Microsoft button and a at the same time it'll bring up our menu from here got our performance overlay and as you can see I mean with those 12 cores and 24 threads there's kind of a lot going on over there so for most of the games that we're going to be running here I'm just going to be on number three here in the performance overlay menu moving down a bit I've disabled the frame limiter this is connected to a 120 HZ display we've got vrr if we want it you can enable HDR half rate shading basically everything here is working that would work on the steam deck except for our manual GPU clock with this 890m right now moving over to our settings just want to give you a look here so we've got that AMD ryzen ai9 HX 370 12 cores 24 threads I've got 32 gigs of ddr5 at 8,000 MHz I have done some overclocking here on the RAM and the GPU and if you take a look at this our video driver this is the 4.6 compatibility profile driver it is using Messa 24.1 7 this was the only issue I ran into basically I just had to install this in GPU compatibility mode and who knows by the time this goes up bazy might be updated for that 890m but I was getting a black screen on this system without it and while I was installing it I was thinking maybe it's just not going to work properly but once we get into some gameplay you'll see that even with this compatibility profile this thing is screaming now another great thing we have here with bazy is desktop mode so I'm going to go to Power and I'm just going to switch over to desktop real quick and as you can see it looks just like the steam de desktop mode so we could use this as a Linux PC just like it is we can always go back to game mode with bite we do have the welcome screen here this comes in really handy for people who just want to go ahead and do a one fail swoop with installing everything decky loader emu deck we can go with Sunshine if we want to I've actually installed a bunch of this stuff already we'll choose next application installer from here we can choose different web browsers to install right off the bat so you can get everything up and running with this nice welcome installer they have here with bazide and if it really came down to it we can always install anything we want through terminal and we have discover just like the steam deck so if you've ever messed around with the steam deck in desktop mode you know exactly what we have here if you want to go with some emulators here and you're not going to use let's say emu deck you can just install the stalon right here no problem at all so yeah I mean this is definitely an all-in-one Linux drro and on this HX 370 I mean we are seeing some really great performance for an igpu based system I'm going to move back over to our game mode and I'll show you what this thing can do okay got our on screen overlay up in the top leand Corner Spider-Man Miles Morales 1080p medium settings no frame gen so you can see we're at medium 1080 no frame gen igti scaling set to balance personally with this game here I do like IGT over FSR even if I was to use frame gen here let me turn on the larger overlay so we can see what's going on and by the way this Mini PC is only running at a 54 wat TDP and I say only I know that sounds like a lot for a Mini PC but given that we need to power 12 cores 24 threads and that new 16cu ipu 54 watts in my opinion does sound a bit low these things can do up to around 85 Watts but as you can see from gamescope we're seeing an average of around 84 FPS with this game right now which is really awesome for an igpu up in the tall buildings and indoors this does go up to over 100 FPS and again we're not using frame gen but I wanted to show you what frame gen can do with this game here so from here the only thing I've done is an able FSR frame gen we're still using that igti scaler but now we're seeing an average of around 138 FPS with this and I mean it's really smooth on this HX 370 and given the performance jump that frame gen just gave us we can go from medium up to very high still keep that balance scaling going with frame genen on and get an average of 80 FPS with this game next one I wanted to test here is one that we usually test on the 78m and with that chip we usually have to enable frame gen to see these kind of frame rates we're usually at 1080 medium settings with frame gen on over there on that igpu but with this new 890m we don't need any frame gen and we can take it up to high settings so we're at 1080 High seeing an average of 65 FPS with this one on the 890m Starfield 1080p low settings with FSR set to 50% scale so I did try FSR at 80% % scale and we were under 60 there was just no way around this is one of those games that can really benefit from using frame generation on an igpu or you could drop that resolution down to 900p black myth woo Kong I just use the built-in benchmark here 1080 low with FSR set to 60% scale had an average of 61 definitely not the best performance here but there is a few things that we can do to make this run much better on a chip like this I haven't tested Witcher three on an igp in a while so I figured I'd go ahead and throw it in we're at 1080 High getting an average of around 67 FPS so taking it down to medium you will be over that Mark and just kind of keep it there all day even during intense battle look Elden ring was really hoping I could go in this at 1080 high but I did have to drop it down to medium and even then you can see that it dips under 60 now I'll tell you I mean with vrr enabled if that frame counter wasn't on screen I would know that this thing dipped under 60 I mean it felt really smooth didn't have any lag or anything like that but in some cases you can see it go under 50 I think we hit like 46 in one area either way I mean it's still played much better than I thought it would Hogwarts Legacy now I wasn't sure how this was going to perform because you know it's really hit or miss depending on what kind of igpu or even GPU you're running on not a super well optimized game in my opinion but right now we're at 108 medium with FSR set to balance and we're over 60 we got an average of 72 FPS I also tested Ratchet and Clank Rift apart at 1080 medium settings with with FSR again set to balance that's kind of where you need to be with these igpus if you want to get over that 60 Mark and this does go well over that 60 Mark even with frame gen completely disabled here and the final game I tested was cyberpunk 2077 so these are the settings that I personally use on handhelds and even lowend mini PCS because I know that we're not working with a lot of power 1080 low settings and we'll get in here because this is one of the highest frame rates that I've seen out of an igpu so far so we're completely at low 1080 right now and I'm seeing an average of around 84 FPS on an igpu I've always kind of said it when I test out Linux in this game here it does seem that cyberpunk does run better on these igp use while running a Linux drro when it comes down to it we're definitely seeing some amazing Linux gaming on the HX 370 it actually outperformed my expectations going into this I really wasn't sure what to expect you know due to drivers and everything but even while running this with the compatibility driver we're seeing some of the best performance that we've seen out of an igpu when it comes to Linux gaming using an operating system like bazy in fact in my initial testing I think this may be outperforming Windows the way it sits right now and we could definitely see better performance in the future with the correct dri version for this 890m but overall the way it is right now yeah bite does work on the HX 370 with this Mini PC but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching I'm going to keep an eye on progress with all of the drivers just to see if we do get a nice bump in performance on the 890m I suspect we'll see something official soon but if you've got any questions or you want to see anything else running on this little mini PC be it in Linux or Windows just let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be testing out bazy on the allnew ryzen AI 9hx 370 this is something that I've been wanting to test since the release of ryzen AI and I can tell you right now that yeah we are seeing some really great performance set of this and it really comes down to the chipset and the operating system we're using if you're not familiar with bite basically what we've got here is an operating system that's very similar to the one running on the steam deck so we can install this on a desktop PC laptop other handhelds like the Rog Alix but in this video I wanted to test it on this new Mini PC from belink known as the sc9 now with this I do have a little bit of overclock going with that HX 370 and the allnew Radeon 890 Mii GPU and just to give you an idea here with this Mini PC we've got 32 GB of LP ddr5x with an 8,000 MHz overclo only up 500 MHz from this stock 7500 but it does make a bit of a difference with this igpu we've also got that Radeon 890m this is based on rdna 3.5 with 16 compute units and I've overclocked this up to 3100 mahz of course we're going to be running bazy OS on this PC jumping right into it this little system has been working really well and as soon as I installed everything we had Wi-Fi Bluetooth everything's working just fine on this system I'm using an Xbox controller right now I've press the Microsoft button and a at the same time it'll bring up our menu from here got our performance overlay and as you can see I mean with those 12 cores and 24 threads there's kind of a lot going on over there so for most of the games that we're going to be running here I'm just going to be on number three here in the performance overlay menu moving down a bit I've disabled the frame limiter this is connected to a 120 HZ display we've got vrr if we want it you can enable HDR half rate shading basically everything here is working that would work on the steam deck except for our manual GPU clock with this 890m right now moving over to our settings just want to give you a look here so we've got that AMD ryzen ai9 HX 370 12 cores 24 threads I've got 32 gigs of ddr5 at 8,000 MHz I have done some overclocking here on the RAM and the GPU and if you take a look at this our video driver this is the 4.6 compatibility profile driver it is using Messa 24.1 7 this was the only issue I ran into basically I just had to install this in GPU compatibility mode and who knows by the time this goes up bazy might be updated for that 890m but I was getting a black screen on this system without it and while I was installing it I was thinking maybe it's just not going to work properly but once we get into some gameplay you'll see that even with this compatibility profile this thing is screaming now another great thing we have here with bazy is desktop mode so I'm going to go to Power and I'm just going to switch over to desktop real quick and as you can see it looks just like the steam de desktop mode so we could use this as a Linux PC just like it is we can always go back to game mode with bite we do have the welcome screen here this comes in really handy for people who just want to go ahead and do a one fail swoop with installing everything decky loader emu deck we can go with Sunshine if we want to I've actually installed a bunch of this stuff already we'll choose next application installer from here we can choose different web browsers to install right off the bat so you can get everything up and running with this nice welcome installer they have here with bazide and if it really came down to it we can always install anything we want through terminal and we have discover just like the steam deck so if you've ever messed around with the steam deck in desktop mode you know exactly what we have here if you want to go with some emulators here and you're not going to use let's say emu deck you can just install the stalon right here no problem at all so yeah I mean this is definitely an all-in-one Linux drro and on this HX 370 I mean we are seeing some really great performance for an igpu based system I'm going to move back over to our game mode and I'll show you what this thing can do okay got our on screen overlay up in the top leand Corner Spider-Man Miles Morales 1080p medium settings no frame gen so you can see we're at medium 1080 no frame gen igti scaling set to balance personally with this game here I do like IGT over FSR even if I was to use frame gen here let me turn on the larger overlay so we can see what's going on and by the way this Mini PC is only running at a 54 wat TDP and I say only I know that sounds like a lot for a Mini PC but given that we need to power 12 cores 24 threads and that new 16cu ipu 54 watts in my opinion does sound a bit low these things can do up to around 85 Watts but as you can see from gamescope we're seeing an average of around 84 FPS with this game right now which is really awesome for an igpu up in the tall buildings and indoors this does go up to over 100 FPS and again we're not using frame gen but I wanted to show you what frame gen can do with this game here so from here the only thing I've done is an able FSR frame gen we're still using that igti scaler but now we're seeing an average of around 138 FPS with this and I mean it's really smooth on this HX 370 and given the performance jump that frame gen just gave us we can go from medium up to very high still keep that balance scaling going with frame genen on and get an average of 80 FPS with this game next one I wanted to test here is one that we usually test on the 78m and with that chip we usually have to enable frame gen to see these kind of frame rates we're usually at 1080 medium settings with frame gen on over there on that igpu but with this new 890m we don't need any frame gen and we can take it up to high settings so we're at 1080 High seeing an average of 65 FPS with this one on the 890m Starfield 1080p low settings with FSR set to 50% scale so I did try FSR at 80% % scale and we were under 60 there was just no way around this is one of those games that can really benefit from using frame generation on an igpu or you could drop that resolution down to 900p black myth woo Kong I just use the built-in benchmark here 1080 low with FSR set to 60% scale had an average of 61 definitely not the best performance here but there is a few things that we can do to make this run much better on a chip like this I haven't tested Witcher three on an igp in a while so I figured I'd go ahead and throw it in we're at 1080 High getting an average of around 67 FPS so taking it down to medium you will be over that Mark and just kind of keep it there all day even during intense battle look Elden ring was really hoping I could go in this at 1080 high but I did have to drop it down to medium and even then you can see that it dips under 60 now I'll tell you I mean with vrr enabled if that frame counter wasn't on screen I would know that this thing dipped under 60 I mean it felt really smooth didn't have any lag or anything like that but in some cases you can see it go under 50 I think we hit like 46 in one area either way I mean it's still played much better than I thought it would Hogwarts Legacy now I wasn't sure how this was going to perform because you know it's really hit or miss depending on what kind of igpu or even GPU you're running on not a super well optimized game in my opinion but right now we're at 108 medium with FSR set to balance and we're over 60 we got an average of 72 FPS I also tested Ratchet and Clank Rift apart at 1080 medium settings with with FSR again set to balance that's kind of where you need to be with these igpus if you want to get over that 60 Mark and this does go well over that 60 Mark even with frame gen completely disabled here and the final game I tested was cyberpunk 2077 so these are the settings that I personally use on handhelds and even lowend mini PCS because I know that we're not working with a lot of power 1080 low settings and we'll get in here because this is one of the highest frame rates that I've seen out of an igpu so far so we're completely at low 1080 right now and I'm seeing an average of around 84 FPS on an igpu I've always kind of said it when I test out Linux in this game here it does seem that cyberpunk does run better on these igp use while running a Linux drro when it comes down to it we're definitely seeing some amazing Linux gaming on the HX 370 it actually outperformed my expectations going into this I really wasn't sure what to expect you know due to drivers and everything but even while running this with the compatibility driver we're seeing some of the best performance that we've seen out of an igpu when it comes to Linux gaming using an operating system like bazy in fact in my initial testing I think this may be outperforming Windows the way it sits right now and we could definitely see better performance in the future with the correct dri version for this 890m but overall the way it is right now yeah bite does work on the HX 370 with this Mini PC but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching I'm going to keep an eye on progress with all of the drivers just to see if we do get a nice bump in performance on the 890m I suspect we'll see something official soon but if you've got any questions or you want to see anything else running on this little mini PC be it in Linux or Windows just let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watching\n"
