Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) vs Arc 130T

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) with 48 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 4 years and 6 months newer Arc 130T that utilizes 7 pipelines and 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 130T over UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130T
  • Performs significantly better (up to 5.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 3.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 18 vs 5 FPS
  • 3.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 7 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 4.4x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (36K vs 8K)
  • Has 2.3x more shading units (896 vs 384)
  • Features 112 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
12
-
-
-
46
26
21
10
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
37
29
22
10
Counter-Strike 2
13
9
-
-
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 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 741 3409
Solar Bay - 12704
Port Royal - 1902
Fire Strike 2345 8001
Wild Life Extreme 1606 5990
Night Raid 10085 36940
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 18.4 img/sec 70.9 img/sec
Face Detection 10.7 img/sec 34.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.3 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.47 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.3 Gpixels/sec 1.96 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 21.5 Gpixels/sec 131.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1269.5 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 - 42 FPS
DirectX 12 - 27 FPS
GPU Compute - 2620 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 360 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 10 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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 893 3978
Image Segmentation (HP) 1369 8374
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1052 5792
Face Detection (HP) 2087 13023
Pose Estimation (Q) 3981 16149
Text Classification (SP) 807 1356
Machine Translation (HP) 895 2594
Object Detection (SP) 944 4754
Depth Estimation (Q) 2678 12040
Style Transfer (SP) 13752 51653
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) and Arc 130T

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released August 15, 2020 January 6, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.1 Xe+
GPU Codename Tiger Lake GT2 Arrow Lake iGPU
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon 840M
Recommended CPU - - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 5 210H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX
- Intel Processor U300
- Intel Core i5 13420H
- Intel Core i5 12450H
- Intel Core i3 1125G4
- Intel Pentium Gold 7505
- and 1 more
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225H
Laptop GPU ranking (131st and 100th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 800-1400 MHz (configurable) 2200 MHz
Shading Units 384 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 12 28
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 7
Tensor Cores No 112
Ray-tracing Cores No 7
L2 Cache - 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 10-17 GPixel/s 62 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 19-34 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc 130T +255%
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 35 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 5 nm
Die Size 146 mm² -
Max. Temperature - 110°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 -

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
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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