Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) vs Adreno X2-90
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Adreno X2-90
Adreno X2
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) with 64 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year and 10 months newer Adreno X2-90 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-90
- 3.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (7.6 vs 2 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Has 4x more shading units (2048 vs 512)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 3782 |
| Solar Bay | - | 24300 |
| Port Royal | - | 1592 |
| Fire Strike | - | 10039 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 9890 |
| Night Raid | - | 57486 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 37.6 img/sec | - |
| Face Detection | 17.2 img/sec | - |
| Horizon Detection | 0.3 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Edge Detection | 0.63 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.94 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Feature Matching | 0.22 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Stereo Matching | 60 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Particle Physics | 3695.9 FPS | - |
| API | OpenCL | - |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | - | 592 |
| DirectX 11 | - | 57 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | - | 29 FPS |
| GPU Compute | - | 3638 Ops/s |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 2902 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 5473 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 2967 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 6068 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 8220 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 609 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1146 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 2766 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 6405 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 26796 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) and Adreno X2-90General
| Vendor | Intel | Qualcomm |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | December 14, 2023 | September 25, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Xe LPG | Adreno X2 |
| GPU Codename | - | Adreno X2 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon 740M | - Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 125U or above | - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX - Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus - Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus - Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus - Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus - Intel Core Ultra 5 225U - Intel Core Ultra 5 235U - Intel Core Ultra 7 255U - and 12 more |
- 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 (96th and 34th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1750-2000 MHz (configurable) | 1700-1850 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 512 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 64 | 12 |
| Tensor Cores | - | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 4 | - |
| L1 Cache | 768KB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 28-32 GPixel/s | 109-118 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 56-64 GTexel/s | 218-237 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Ring Bus | IGP |
| TGP | 14 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | - | 220 mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Bus | - | 192-bit |
| ECC | - | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | No |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4 |
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