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Nvidia N1 (20SM) vs Intel Arc B370

Nvidia N1 (20SM)
VS
Intel Arc B370
Nvidia N1 (20SM)
GB20B
Intel Arc B370
Panther Lake

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Nvidia N1 (20SM) with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 5 months older Intel Arc B370 that utilizes 10 pipelines and 1280 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments
Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1 (20SM) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Arc B370 over N1 (20SM)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1 (20SM)
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.4 vs 6.1 TFLOPS)
  • Has 2x more shading units (2560 vs 1280)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc B370
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
N1 (20SM)
vs
Arc B370

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
71
41
32
18
The Witcher 3 -
65
55
39
19
Counter-Strike 2 -
85
62
41
19
Far Cry 6 -
56
50
36
17
Hogwarts Legacy -
31
22
17
9
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
36
32
24
14
Ghost of Tsushima -
35
27
21
11
Cyberpunk 2077 -
38
32
20
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
61
50
34
20
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 53
1080p Ultra - 41
1440p Ultra - 29
4K Ultra - 15
Margin of Error High 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
N1 (20SM)
n/a
Arc B370
4941
Time Spy - 6028
Solar Bay - 23177
Port Royal - 3498
Fire Strike - 15198
Wild Life Extreme - 11657
Night Raid - 69941
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
N1 (20SM)
n/a
Arc B370
48273
Background Blur - 117.4 img/sec
Face Detection - 60.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 1.39 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 1.95 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 2.45 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 0.66 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 144.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 7272.6 FPS
API - OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
N1 (20SM)
n/a
Arc B370
8433
G2D Mark - 832
DirectX 11 - 65 FPS
DirectX 12 - 45 FPS
GPU Compute - 3369 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 48 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
N1 (20SM)
n/a
Arc B370
1289.45
Sources: Blender [9] – 5 samples
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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
N1 (20SM)
n/a
Arc B370
10834
GB6 ML Half Precision
N1 (20SM)
n/a
Arc B370
20482
GB6 ML Quantized
N1 (20SM)
n/a
Arc B370
7349
Image Classification (SP) - 5389
Image Segmentation (HP) - 18899
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 8326
Face Detection (HP) - 25377
Pose Estimation (Q) - 16174
Text Classification (SP) - 1763
Machine Translation (HP) - 4140
Object Detection (SP) - 7138
Depth Estimation (Q) - 20034
Style Transfer (SP) - 84880
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia N1 (20SM) and Intel Arc B370

General

Vendor Nvidia Intel
Build Discrete Integrated
Released June 1, 2026 January 5, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell (N1x) Celestial
GPU Codename GB20B Panther Lake
Recommended CPU - - Intel Core Ultra 7 356H or above
Used in CPUs - - Intel Core Ultra 5 338H
Laptop GPU ranking (#71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1665 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2418 MHz 2400 MHz
Shading Units 2560 1280
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 20
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 10
Tensor Cores 80 80
Ray-tracing Cores 20 10
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 50MB shared 16MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 58 GPixel/s 48 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 387 GTexel/s 96 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
N1 (20SM) +103%
12.4 TFLOPS
Arc B370
6.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 IGP
TGP - 25 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus 256-bit -
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
N1 (20SM)
273.2 GB/s
Arc B370
n/a

API

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

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