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Intel Arc 130T vs Adreno X2-85

Intel Arc 130T
VS
Adreno X2-85
Intel Arc 130T
Arrow Lake iGPU
Adreno X2-85
Adreno X2

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Arc 130T with 7 pipelines and 896 shaders against the 9 months newer Adreno X2-85 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X2-85 over Arc 130T
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130T
  • Features 112 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-85
  • Performs slightly better (up to 15%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 79% higher maximum theoretical performance (7 vs 3.9 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 2.3x more shading units (2048 vs 896)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Arc 130T
vs
Adreno X2-85

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
46
26
21
10
 -
The Witcher 3
37
29
22
10
 -
Counter-Strike 2
40
28
22
-
-
Far Cry 6
34
28
23
11
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
19
11
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
29
27
20
11
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
22
14
11
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
21
16
11
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
34
32
20
13
 -
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 31 -
1080p Ultra 23 -
1440p Ultra 18 -
4K Ultra 9 -
Margin of Error Low High

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Arc 130T
2904
Adreno X2-85 +15%
3331
Time Spy 3409 1403
Solar Bay 12704 14961
Port Royal 1902 735
Fire Strike 8001 7510
Wild Life Extreme 5990 6989
Night Raid 36940 24606
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 70.9 img/sec -
Face Detection 34.9 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 1.13 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 1.42 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 1.96 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.45 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 131.5 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 7360.9 FPS -
API OpenCL -
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Arc 130T +5%
6126
Adreno X2-85
5855
G2D Mark 791 655
DirectX 11 43 FPS 45 FPS
DirectX 12 27 FPS 23 FPS
GPU Compute 2665 Ops/s 2523 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 335 & 20 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Arc 130T
604.09
Adreno X2-85
n/a
Sources: Blender [9] – 10 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3978 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 8374 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5792 -
Face Detection (HP) 13023 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 16149 -
Text Classification (SP) 1356 -
Machine Translation (HP) 2594 -
Object Detection (SP) 4754 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 12040 -
Style Transfer (SP) 51653 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc 130T and Adreno X2-85

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 6, 2025 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Xe+ Adreno X2
GPU Codename Arrow Lake iGPU Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 840M - Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (98th and 50th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2200 MHz 1350-1700 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 896 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 56 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 28 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 12
Tensor Cores 112 No
Ray-tracing Cores 7 -
L2 Cache 4MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 62 GPixel/s 86-109 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 123 GTexel/s 173-218 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc 130T
3.9 TFLOPS
Adreno X2-85 +79%
5.5-7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 IGP
TGP 35 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 3 nm
Die Size - 220 mm²
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus - 128-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth
Arc 130T
n/a
Adreno X2-85
152 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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