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Intel Arc B390 vs Adreno X2-90

Intel Arc B390
VS
Adreno X2-90
Intel Arc B390
Panther Lake
Adreno X2-90
Adreno X2

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel Arc B390 with 12 pipelines and 1536 shaders against the 3 months older Adreno X2-90 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 X2-90 over Arc B390
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc B390
  • Features 96 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-90
  • Has 33% more shading units (2048 vs 1536)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Arc B390
vs
Adreno X2-90

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
80
41
36
20
 -
The Witcher 3
76
63
44
19
 -
Counter-Strike 2
96
70
46
23
 -
Far Cry 6
63
56
38
18
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
33
24
18
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
37
35
28
13
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
37
31
24
12
 -
Cyberpunk 2077
43
38
21
9
 -
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
65
57
39
23
 -
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 59 -
1080p Ultra 46 -
1440p Ultra 33 -
4K Ultra 16 -
Margin of Error Low 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
Arc B390 +6%
5461
Adreno X2-90
5142
Time Spy 6880 3782
Solar Bay 26783 24300
Port Royal 3880 1592
Fire Strike 16845 10039
Wild Life Extreme 11778 9890
Night Raid 72249 57486
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 87.6 img/sec -
Face Detection 58.5 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 1.9 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 2.68 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 4.74 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 1.01 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 249.7 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 10821.1 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 B390 +18%
8926
Adreno X2-90
7585
G2D Mark 812 592
DirectX 11 70 FPS 57 FPS
DirectX 12 48 FPS 29 FPS
GPU Compute 3669 Ops/s 3638 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 425 & 61 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Arc B390
1269.36
Adreno X2-90
n/a
Sources: Blender [9] – 95 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc B390
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-05 -> asterismxGeekBench57164
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Adreno X2-90
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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) 5487 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 16864 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8788 -
Face Detection (HP) 25029 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 18852 -
Text Classification (SP) 2115 -
Machine Translation (HP) 4266 -
Object Detection (SP) 7449 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 22207 -
Style Transfer (SP) 95039 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc B390 and Adreno X2-90

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 5, 2026 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Celestial Adreno X2
GPU Codename Panther Lake Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra X9 388H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra X9 378H
- Intel Core Ultra X7 368H
- Intel Core Ultra X9 388H
- Intel Core Ultra X7 358H		 - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-88-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (62nd and 34th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2500 MHz 1700-1850 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1536 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 12
Tensor Cores 96 No
Ray-tracing Cores 12 -
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 16MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 60 GPixel/s 109-118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 120 GTexel/s 218-237 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc B390 +1%
7.7 TFLOPS
Adreno X2-90
7-7.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP 30 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 3 nm
Die Size - 220 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus - 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Arc B390
n/a
Adreno X2-90
228 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.1 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 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

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
11 (84.6%)
2 (15.4%)
Total votes: 13

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