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Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) vs Arc 130T

Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
VS
Intel Arc 130T
Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
Intel Arc 130T
Arrow Lake iGPU

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) with 112 pipelines and 896 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month newer Arc 130T that utilizes 7 pipelines and 896 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
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 Arc 130T over Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130T
  • Achieves 33% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (36K vs 27K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
vs
Arc 130T

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 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 - 3409
Solar Bay - 12704
Port Royal - 1902
Fire Strike - 8001
Wild Life Extreme - 5990
Night Raid - 36940
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
27187
Arc 130T +33%
36282
Background Blur 44.2 img/sec 70.9 img/sec
Face Detection 21.3 img/sec 34.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.92 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.04 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.86 Gpixels/sec 1.96 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.32 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 115.8 Gpixels/sec 131.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5380.5 FPS 7360.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 791
DirectX 11 - 43 FPS
DirectX 12 - 27 FPS
GPU Compute - 2665 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 335 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
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
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
4189
Arc 130T +73%
7262
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
6443
Arc 130T +55%
9964
GB6 ML Quantized
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
3036
Arc 130T +65%
5008
Image Classification (SP) 2092 3978
Image Segmentation (HP) 5680 8374
Image Super Resolution (Q) 3418 5792
Face Detection (HP) 7436 13023
Pose Estimation (Q) 11114 16149
Text Classification (SP) 732 1356
Machine Translation (HP) 1896 2594
Object Detection (SP) 2158 4754
Depth Estimation (Q) 6898 12040
Style Transfer (SP) 39845 51653
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) and Arc 130T

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released December 14, 2023 January 6, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Xe LPG Xe+
GPU Codename - Arrow Lake iGPU
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 760M - Radeon 840M
Successor - Intel Arc 130V -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H
Laptop GPU ranking (83rd and 98th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2200 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 896 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 56 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 28
Compute Units (Pipelines) 112 7
Tensor Cores - 112
Ray-tracing Cores 7 7
L1 Cache 1344KB shared -
L2 Cache - 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 53 GPixel/s 62 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 123 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
3.9 TFLOPS
Arc 130T
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 28 W 35 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Max. Temperature - 110°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared

API

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

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
8 (22.9%)
27 (77.1%)
Total votes: 35

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