Intel 4 Xe3 GPU is over 50 percent slower than the flagship Arc B390 according to first benchmarks

[Redaktion]

The new Intel Xe3 currently shipping with Panther Lake-U has only one-fourth the RT cores and one-third the rendering pipelines of the Arc B390 for significantly slower performance levels when gaming.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-4-Xe3-GPU-is-over-50-percent-slower-than-the-flagship-Arc-B390-according-to-first-benchmarks.1227840.0.html

[Good reminder tho]

It's a decent GPU for running demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077 at 900p or 1080p on low settings, but we definitely recommend the Core Ultra X7 or even the competing Radeon 890M for more GPU-oriented tasks.

What do you mean by "more GPU-oriented tasks"?, the Radeon 890M isn't exactly fast or much faster than the 4-core Panther Lake iGPU (notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html: Time Spy: 3400 vs 3000 for the 4-core Panther Lake iGPU) and the Radeon 890M (RDNA3.5) doesn't have hardware ML-based, DLSS-like, upscaling. You decide if you want to spend money on a non-hardware-ML-supporting iGPU at this point. RDNA4 is out, but not for iGPUs this year.

Same arch, but the 355 APU has only 4 Xe-Cores cores and the Arc B390 has 12, and 12 cores make it ~2.4 times faster (7043 vs 2951) (it's only 1.59 times faster at the 720p resolution, because it's probably not GPU-bound).

[Good reminder tho]

Nice overview of which Panther Lake APUs don't have the 12-core Arc B390: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)#List_of_Panther_Lake_processors.

[Vibe]

The battery life on these lower power limit panther lakes with less CPU cores (4+4 cluster) is pretty incredible tho™.

It would be interesting to see if they make something like this later for handhelds but with full 12 Xe3 igpu cores enabled.