Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) vs Arc B390

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) with 80 pipelines and 640 shaders against the 5 years and 6 months newer Arc B390 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 1536 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 B390 over Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc B390
  • Performs significantly better (up to 6.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 5.5x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 33 vs 6 FPS
  • 4.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (7.7 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 3.9x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (56K vs 14K)
  • Has 2.4x more shading units (1536 vs 640)
  • Features 96 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
21
10
-
-
80
41
36
20
The Witcher 3
12
9
-
-
76
63
44
19
Counter-Strike 2
16
11
9
-
96
70
46
23
Far Cry 6
13
10
-
-
63
56
38
18
Hogwarts Legacy
-
-
-
-
33
24
18
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
12
12
10
-
37
35
28
13
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
37
31
24
12
Cyberpunk 2077 -
43
38
21
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
12
12
-
-
65
57
39
23
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 12 59
1080p Ultra 9 46
1440p Ultra - 33
4K Ultra - 16
Margin of Error Medium 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 1230 6880
Solar Bay - 26783
Port Royal - 3880
Fire Strike 4196 16845
Wild Life Extreme 2124 11778
Night Raid 15167 72249
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 31 img/sec 87.6 img/sec
Face Detection 23.3 img/sec 58.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.61 Gpixels/sec 1.9 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.87 Gpixels/sec 2.68 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.36 Gpixels/sec 4.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.15 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 36.1 Gpixels/sec 249.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2493.2 FPS 10821.1 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 392 811
DirectX 11 16 FPS 70 FPS
DirectX 12 12 FPS 48 FPS
GPU Compute 1158 Ops/s 3699 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 69410 & 535 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 116 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
No benchmark results yet
Intel Arc B390
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-05 -> asterismxGeekbench 6 OpenCL57164

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) 1149 5487
Image Segmentation (HP) 1796 16864
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1394 8788
Face Detection (HP) 2775 25029
Pose Estimation (Q) 5476 18852
Text Classification (SP) 981 2115
Machine Translation (HP) 905 4266
Object Detection (SP) 1277 7449
Depth Estimation (Q) 3737 22207
Style Transfer (SP) 22348 95039
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) and Arc B390

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released August 15, 2020 January 5, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Generation 12.1 Celestial
GPU Codename Tiger Lake GT2 Panther Lake
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above - Intel Core Ultra X9 388H or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 5 220U
- Intel Core 5 220H
- Intel Core i5 1334U
- Intel Core 5 120U
- Intel Core i5 1335U
- Intel Core i5 1345U
- Intel Core i5 1340P
- Intel Core i5 13500H
- and 14 more
- Intel Core Ultra X9 378H
- Intel Core Ultra X7 368H
- Intel Core Ultra X9 388H
- Intel Core Ultra X7 358H
Laptop GPU ranking (136th and 71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 850-1500 MHz (configurable) 2500 MHz
Shading Units 640 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 20 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 80 12
Tensor Cores No 96
Ray-tracing Cores No 12
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 16MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 17-30 GPixel/s 60 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 34-60 GTexel/s 120 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc B390 +305%
7.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus IGP
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 3 nm
Die Size 146 mm² -
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent -
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent -
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent -
ECC No No

API

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

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