Intel Arc iGPU on Meteor Lake CPUs Deliver Competitive Gaming Performance Against AMD RDNA 3 iGPUs
The first reviews of Intel's Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptops are out and the Arc iGPU seems to be doing well against AMD's RDNA 3 iGPU.
Intel lost its leads within the iGPU space ever since AMD started offering its APUs with integrated graphics. The Vega iGPU family solidified AMD's grip on the market and with RDNA, the red team entered a whole new realm of devices, powering Mini PCs and handhelds with top-notch graphics performance. Meanwhile, Intel's Iris Xe solutions had been lacking in the graphics department for some time now but all of that changes today with the introduction of Arc iGPUs in the Core Ultra lineup.
The Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs come with three configurations of Arc Alchemist iGPUs that is codenamed "Xe-LPG". These configurations include 8 Xe-Cores, 7 Xe-Cores & 4 Xe-Cores. These GPUs can boost up to 2350 MHz (Core Ultra 9 185H) and can see dramatic performance scaling when running higher bandwidth memory such as LPDDR5X. These GPUs also come with support for DX12 Ultimate, XeSS (DP4a), and AV1 amongst other things. Overall, this iGPUs is an important component of the latest processors from Chipzilla.
We have seen synthetic benchmarks of the Intel Arc iGPU on various occasions so we will try to report specifically on gaming benchmarks in this article. To start off with the figures, we have to share the tests conducted by Golden Pig Upgrade (Bilibili) who conducted gaming tests on both Core Ultra 7 155H (8 Xe-Cores) and Core Ultra 5 125H (7 Xe-Core) CPUs. The tests cover various games that were tested at 1080p resolution with both High & low settings. The tests can be seen below:
In both instances, it looks like the Intel Arc and AMD RDNA 3 iGPUs are very competitive against one another with
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