Intel Arc B390 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Intel Arc B390 with 12 pipelines and 1536 shaders against the 5 years and 1 month older GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 4 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 3050 Ti Mobile over Arc B390
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc B390
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
  • Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Shows 15% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 38 vs 33 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 67% more shading units (2560 vs 1536)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
80
41
36
20
85
49
41
25
The Witcher 3
76
63
44
19
79
62
42
20
Counter-Strike 2
96
70
46
23
128
89
65
26
Far Cry 6
63
56
38
18
67
58
46
22
Hogwarts Legacy
33
24
18
-
40
36
25
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
37
35
28
13
53
42
28
21
Ghost of Tsushima
37
31
24
12
38
30
22
12
Cyberpunk 2077
43
38
21
9
44
40
24
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
65
57
39
23
74
68
47
23
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 59 68
1080p Ultra 46 53
1440p Ultra 33 38
4K Ultra 16 19
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
Time Spy 6880 5386
Solar Bay 26783 24115
Port Royal 3880 569
Fire Strike 16845 13504
Wild Life Extreme 11778 10240
Night Raid 72249 56676
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
56204
65121
Background Blur 87.6 img/sec 107.9 img/sec
Face Detection 58.5 img/sec 62.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.9 Gpixels/sec 2.75 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.68 Gpixels/sec 3.61 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.74 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.01 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 249.7 Gpixels/sec 275.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10821.1 FPS 8303.3 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
8973
10066
G2D Mark 811 499
DirectX 11 70 FPS 75 FPS
DirectX 12 48 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 3699 Ops/s 4319 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 535 & 11100 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1262.26
1313.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 116 & 758 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc B390
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-05 -> asterismxGeekbench 6 OpenCL57164
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
No benchmark results yet

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
Arc B390 +15%
12930
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc B390 +17%
23819
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 5487 4716
Image Segmentation (HP) 16864 12032
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8788 9965
Face Detection (HP) 25029 20723
Pose Estimation (Q) 18852 41186
Text Classification (SP) 2115 2133
Machine Translation (HP) 4266 3449
Object Detection (SP) 7449 5585
Depth Estimation (Q) 22207 19119
Style Transfer (SP) 95039 86331
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc B390 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

General

Vendor Intel Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 5, 2026 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Celestial Ampere
GPU Codename Panther Lake GA107 (GN20-P1)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 6500M
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra X9 388H or above - Intel Core i7 12700H 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
-
Laptop GPU ranking (64th and 87th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 735-1463 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2500 MHz 1035-1695 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1536 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 20
Tensor Cores 96 80
Ray-tracing Cores 12 20
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 16MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 60 GPixel/s 50-81 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 120 GTexel/s 83-136 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
7.7 TFLOPS
5.3-8.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 30 W 35-95 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 3 nm 8 nm
Die Size - 276 mm²
Transistor Count - 12 billion
Transistor Density - 43.48 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 4 GB
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.1 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA No 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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ComputerNerd February 4, 2026 at 06:10 PM
The new Intel ARC B390 iGPU is performing better even with 10 less TFLOPs (based on FP32 standard). This could be that it has 16+ GB of RAM allocated to the iGPU, and blazing fast RAM (9600 MT/s). Also, more energy efficient. The laptop Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti has 4 GB of VRAM and a less efficient fabrication process of 8 nm. These 2 reasons explain a lot why the Intel Arc B390 beats it in real world results.
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