Intel UHD Graphics 770 vs Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics 770 with 32 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months newer Arc iGPU (8-Cores) that utilizes 128 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Arc iGPU (8-Cores) over UHD Graphics 770
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
  • 6x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.8 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 8 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 3.7x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (30K vs 8K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (1024 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
16
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
14
10
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
10
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
-
-
-
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
-
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 9 -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low High

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 809 -
Fire Strike 2899 -
Wild Life Extreme 1960 -
Night Raid 11888 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 17.9 img/sec 66.6 img/sec
Face Detection 11.6 img/sec 28.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.32 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.51 Gpixels/sec 1.24 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.31 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 20.2 Gpixels/sec 102.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1156.4 FPS 6543.8 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 551 -
DirectX 11 11 FPS -
DirectX 12 9 FPS -
GPU Compute 816 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 13496 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 2 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics 770
No benchmark results yet
Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-02-22 (Catt)Steel Nomad Light2669
📘 2026-01-15 (Ak-Dev)Geekbench 6 OpenCL64108
📘 2025-11-08 (Anuj)Geekbench 6 OpenCL35379

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) - 2540
Image Segmentation (HP) - 7387
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 4047
Face Detection (HP) - 8563
Pose Estimation (Q) - 11171
Text Classification (SP) - 819
Machine Translation (HP) - 2228
Object Detection (SP) - 2725
Depth Estimation (Q) - 7794
Style Transfer (SP) - 34572
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 770 and Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released November 4, 2021 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Generation 12.2 Xe LPG
GPU Codename Alder Lake GT1 -
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon 760M
Successor - - Intel Arc 140V
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12500 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 135H or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core i7 14700HX
- Intel Core i7 14650HX
- Intel Core i5 14500HX
- Intel Core i9 14900KS
- Intel Core i9 14900
- Intel Core i7 14700
- Intel Core i5 14600
- Intel Core i5 14500
- and 24 more
- Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
- Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Laptop GPU ranking (136th and 86th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1350-1650 MHz (configurable) 2200-2350 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 128
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No 8
L1 Cache - 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11-13 GPixel/s 70-75 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 22-26 GTexel/s 141-150 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS
4.5-4.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 28 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 5 nm
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1

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