Intel Arc 130V vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Intel Arc 130V with 896 shaders against the 1 year and 7 months older GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4050 Mobile over Arc 130V
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130V
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • 3.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 3.3 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 6 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Achieves 3.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 25K)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 2.9x more shading units (2560 vs 896)
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
107
66
56
35
The Witcher 3 -
117
91
67
34
Counter-Strike 2 -
167
126
88
43
Far Cry 6 -
87
79
59
32
Hogwarts Legacy -
62
52
34
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
75
68
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima -
57
45
33
17
Cyberpunk 2077 -
61
57
34
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
98
90
62
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 92
1080p Ultra - 75
1440p Ultra - 53
4K Ultra - 28
Margin of Error High Low

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
Time Spy - 8212
Solar Bay - 35375
Port Royal - 4624
Fire Strike - 21909
Wild Life Extreme - 15492
Night Raid - 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
25557
81436
Background Blur 64.5 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 34.5 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.74 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.02 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.27 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.34 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 83.6 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3402.8 FPS 11008.8 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
4511
14217
G2D Mark 622 622
DirectX 11 32 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 26 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 2429 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]1317 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
583.14
2568.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10]7 & 2080 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc 130V
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343

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
7794
15570
GB6 ML Half Precision
15672
27160
GB6 ML Quantized
5126
12230
Image Classification (SP) 4265 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 13719 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5154 18240
Face Detection (HP) 18675 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 14874 61300
Text Classification (SP) 1399 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 3623 4357
Object Detection (SP) 5223 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 11851 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 45215 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc 130V and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Intel Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released September 4, 2024 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Xe2 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Lunar Lake iGPU AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 226V or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 238V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 236V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 228V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 226V
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Laptop GPU ranking (76th and 65th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 600 MHz 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1850 MHz 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 896 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) - 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) - 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores No 80
Ray-tracing Cores 7 20
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate - 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate - 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3.3 TFLOPS
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 30 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 5 nm
Die Size - 156 mm²
Transistor Count - 18.9 billion
Transistor Density - 121.15 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 6 GB
Memory Clock - 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 16000 Mbps
Bus - 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
n/a
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan - 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA No 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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