Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) vs Arc 130V

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) with 4 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older Arc 130V that utilizes 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 130V 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 Intel Arc 130V
  • 27% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.3 vs 2.6 TFLOPS)
  • Has 75% more shading units (896 vs 512)

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Arc 130V +10%
25557
Background Blur 57.6 img/sec 64.5 img/sec
Face Detection 29.1 img/sec 34.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.79 Gpixels/sec 0.74 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.02 Gpixels/sec 1.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.02 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 61.2 Gpixels/sec 83.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3352.7 FPS 3402.8 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 - 622
DirectX 11 - 32 FPS
DirectX 12 - 26 FPS
GPU Compute - 2429 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 1317 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 7 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
Arc 130V +21%
15672
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 4265 4265
Image Segmentation (HP) 11549 13719
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4466 5154
Face Detection (HP) 16012 18675
Pose Estimation (Q) 8425 14874
Text Classification (SP) 1380 1399
Machine Translation (HP) 4037 3623
Object Detection (SP) 4026 5223
Depth Estimation (Q) 10708 11851
Style Transfer (SP) 35823 45215
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) and Arc 130V

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 5, 2026 September 4, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Celestial Xe2
GPU Codename Panther Lake Lunar Lake iGPU
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 386H or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 226V 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
- Intel Core Ultra 5 238V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 236V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 228V
- Intel Core Ultra 5 226V
Laptop GPU ranking (75th and 77th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 600 MHz
Boost Clock 2500 MHz 1850 MHz
Shading Units 512 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 -
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 -
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 -
Tensor Cores 32 No
Ray-tracing Cores 4 7
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 4MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 40 GPixel/s -
Texture Fill Rate 80 GTexel/s -
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc 130V +27%
3.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 Ring Bus
TGP 25 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 3 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

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

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