AMD Radeon 660M vs Intel Arc 130T

VS
Intel Arc 130T
Arrow Lake iGPU

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 660M with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 3 years and 1 month newer Intel 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 Radeon 660M
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130T
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 18 vs 9 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2.6x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (36K vs 14K)
  • Has 2.3x more shading units (896 vs 384)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
27
13
11
-
46
26
21
10
The Witcher 3
9
12
-
-
37
29
22
10
Counter-Strike 2
28
17
13
-
40
28
22
-
Far Cry 6
20
16
9
-
34
28
23
11
Hogwarts Legacy
10
-
-
-
19
11
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
18
15
13
-
29
27
20
11
Ghost of Tsushima
13
-
-
-
22
14
11
-
Cyberpunk 2077
9
9
-
-
21
16
11
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
17
14
11
-
34
32
20
13
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 31
1080p Ultra 12 23
1440p Ultra 9 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
Arc 130T +117%
2904
Time Spy 1514 3409
Solar Bay 6396 12704
Port Royal 586 1902
Fire Strike 4879 8001
Wild Life Extreme 2676 5990
Night Raid 18958 36940
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
14065
Arc 130T +158%
36282
Background Blur 36 img/sec 70.9 img/sec
Face Detection 16.4 img/sec 34.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.48 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.53 Gpixels/sec 1.96 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 46.5 Gpixels/sec 131.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2056.5 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
Arc 130T +101%
6114
G2D Mark 654 791
DirectX 11 47 FPS 42 FPS
DirectX 12 23 FPS 27 FPS
GPU Compute 1321 Ops/s 2620 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 5 & 360 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
92.56
Arc 130T +553%
604.09
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 4 & 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
Arc 130T +86%
7262
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc 130T +110%
9964
GB6 ML Quantized
Arc 130T +68%
5008
Image Classification (SP) 1465 3978
Image Segmentation (HP) 1706 8374
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4266 5792
Face Detection (HP) 5115 13023
Pose Estimation (Q) 12992 16149
Text Classification (SP) 1116 1356
Machine Translation (HP) 1859 2594
Object Detection (SP) 1574 4754
Depth Estimation (Q) 6538 12040
Style Transfer (SP) 26656 51653
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 660M and Intel Arc 130T

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 1, 2022 January 6, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Xe+
GPU Codename Rembrandt Arrow Lake iGPU
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon 840M
Successor - Radeon 8040S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 150
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225H
Laptop GPU ranking (118th and 103rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1800-1900 MHz (configurable) 2200 MHz
Shading Units 384 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 28
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 7
Tensor Cores - 112
Ray-tracing Cores 6 7
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 29-30 GPixel/s 62 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 43-46 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.4-1.5 TFLOPS
Arc 130T +160%
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 35 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 208 mm² -
Transistor Count 13.1 billion -
Transistor Density 62.98 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature - 110°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 2.1

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