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

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) with 112 pipelines and 896 shaders against the 9 months newer Arc 130V that utilizes 896 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 130V over Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
  • 18% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 3.3 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130V
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
27187
25557
Background Blur 44.2 img/sec 64.5 img/sec
Face Detection 21.3 img/sec 34.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.92 Gpixels/sec 0.74 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.04 Gpixels/sec 1.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.86 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.32 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 115.8 Gpixels/sec 83.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5380.5 FPS 3402.8 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 - 622
DirectX 11 - 32 FPS
DirectX 12 - 26 FPS
GPU Compute - 2418 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 1395 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 7 samples

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 130V +86%
7794
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc 130V +143%
15672
GB6 ML Quantized
Arc 130V +69%
5126
Image Classification (SP) 2092 4265
Image Segmentation (HP) 5680 13719
Image Super Resolution (Q) 3418 5154
Face Detection (HP) 7436 18675
Pose Estimation (Q) 11114 14874
Text Classification (SP) 732 1399
Machine Translation (HP) 1896 3623
Object Detection (SP) 2158 5223
Depth Estimation (Q) 6898 11851
Style Transfer (SP) 39845 45215
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

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

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released December 14, 2023 September 4, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Xe LPG Xe2
GPU Codename - Lunar Lake iGPU
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 760M -
Successor - Intel Arc 130V -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 226V or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H - Intel Core Ultra 5 238V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 236V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 228V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 226V
Laptop GPU ranking (85th and 78th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 600 MHz
Boost Clock 2200 MHz 1850 MHz
Shading Units 896 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 56 -
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 -
Compute Units (Pipelines) 112 -
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 7 7
L1 Cache 1344KB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 53 GPixel/s -
Texture Fill Rate 123 GTexel/s -
FLOPS (FP32)
3.9 TFLOPS
3.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Ring Bus
TGP 28 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 5 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC - No

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 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

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