Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) vs Arc 140T

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) with 32 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 3 years and 1 month newer Arc 140T that utilizes 8 pipelines and 1024 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 140T over UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 140T
  • Performs significantly better (up to 6.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 6x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.8 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 3.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 18 vs 5 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 8 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 8K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (1024 vs 256)
  • Features 128 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
14
-
-
-
53
28
21
12
The Witcher 3 -
42
33
23
12
Counter-Strike 2
13
-
-
-
48
33
22
10
Far Cry 6
-
-
-
-
37
35
24
11
Hogwarts Legacy -
19
14
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
31
29
21
11
Ghost of Tsushima
-
-
-
-
21
18
13
-
Cyberpunk 2077 -
23
19
11
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
38
36
22
12
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 35
1080p Ultra - 27
1440p Ultra - 18
4K Ultra - 10
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 670 3769
Solar Bay - 14421
Port Royal - 1966
Fire Strike 2365 8568
Wild Life Extreme 1619 6618
Night Raid 9688 38478
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 18.6 img/sec 90 img/sec
Face Detection 12.1 img/sec 39.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 1.21 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.53 Gpixels/sec 1.52 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.32 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.51 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 20.8 Gpixels/sec 161.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1203.8 FPS 9155.9 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 - 835
DirectX 11 - 47 FPS
DirectX 12 - 30 FPS
GPU Compute - 2906 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 2088 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 41 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
No benchmark results yet
Intel Arc 140T
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-16 -> Lello75Geekbench 6 OpenCL42034
📘 2025-09-19 (JacoIsHere)Geekbench 6 OpenCL42182

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) 765 5224
Image Segmentation (HP) 1214 10501
Image Super Resolution (Q) 981 6436
Face Detection (HP) 1893 15277
Pose Estimation (Q) 3752 19008
Text Classification (SP) 847 1566
Machine Translation (HP) 1028 2969
Object Detection (SP) 866 6172
Depth Estimation (Q) 2410 14526
Style Transfer (SP) 11417 62049
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) and Arc 140T

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2022 January 6, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.2 Xe+
GPU Codename Alder Lake GT1 Arrow Lake iGPU
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX Vega 7 - Radeon 860M
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 11500H or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 3 N355
- Intel Core i7 12650HX
- Intel Core i9 14900HX
- Intel Core i3 N300
- Intel Processor N200
- Intel Core i3 N305
- Intel Core i9 13900HX
- Intel Core i7 11850H
- and 4 more
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265H
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
Laptop GPU ranking (132nd and 94th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1450-1650 MHz (configurable) 2250-2350 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 8
Tensor Cores No 128
Ray-tracing Cores No 8
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-13 GPixel/s 72-75 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 23-26 GTexel/s 144-150 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS
Arc 140T +500%
4.6-4.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 35 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 5 nm
Max. Temperature - 110°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1

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