Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) vs Adreno X2-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) with 4 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 4 months older Adreno X2-85 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 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 Adreno X2-85 over Xe3 Graphics (4-Core)
Reasons to consider the Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core)
  • Features 32 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-85
  • 2.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (7 vs 2.6 TFLOPS)
  • Has 4x more shading units (2048 vs 512)

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 - 1403
Solar Bay - 14961
Port Royal - 735
Fire Strike - 7510
Wild Life Extreme - 6989
Night Raid - 24606
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 57.6 img/sec -
Face Detection 29.1 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 0.79 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 1.02 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 1.02 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.34 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 61.2 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 3352.7 FPS -
API OpenCL -
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 655
DirectX 11 - 45 FPS
DirectX 12 - 23 FPS
GPU Compute - 2523 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5]20 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) 4265 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 11549 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4466 -
Face Detection (HP) 16012 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 8425 -
Text Classification (SP) 1380 -
Machine Translation (HP) 4037 -
Object Detection (SP) 4026 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 10708 -
Style Transfer (SP) 35823 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) and Adreno X2-85

General

Vendor Intel Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 5, 2026 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Celestial Adreno X2
GPU Codename Panther Lake Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 386H or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 9 386H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 366H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 365
- Intel Core Ultra 7 356H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 355
- Intel Core Ultra 5 336H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 335
- Intel Core Ultra 5 325
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (74th and 50th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2500 MHz 1350-1700 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 12
Tensor Cores 32 No
Ray-tracing Cores 4 -
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 4MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 40 GPixel/s 86-109 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 80 GTexel/s 173-218 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Adreno X2-85 +169%
5.5-7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 IGP
TGP 25 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 3 nm
Die Size - 220 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.1 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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