AMD Radeon 8065S vs Intel Arc B390

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AMD Radeon 8065S
Gorgon Halo
Intel Arc B390
Panther Lake

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8065S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 8 months older Intel Arc B390 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 1536 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Arc B390 over Radeon 8065S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8065S
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (15.4 vs 7.7 TFLOPS)
  • Has 67% more shading units (2560 vs 1536)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc B390
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Features 96 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 -
80
41
36
20
The Witcher 3 -
76
63
44
19
Counter-Strike 2 -
96
70
46
23
Far Cry 6 -
63
56
38
18
Hogwarts Legacy -
33
24
18
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
37
35
28
13
Ghost of Tsushima -
37
31
24
12
Cyberpunk 2077 -
43
38
21
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
65
57
39
23
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 59
1080p Ultra - 46
1440p Ultra - 33
4K Ultra - 16
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
Time Spy - 6880
Solar Bay - 26783
Port Royal - 3880
Fire Strike - 16845
Wild Life Extreme - 11778
Night Raid - 72249
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur - 87.6 img/sec
Face Detection - 58.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 1.9 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 2.68 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 4.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 249.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 10821.1 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 - 812
DirectX 11 - 70 FPS
DirectX 12 - 48 FPS
GPU Compute - 3669 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 425 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1269.36
Sources: Blender [9] – 95 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 8065S
No benchmark results yet
Intel Arc B390
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-05 -> asterismxGeekbench 6 OpenCL57164

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) - 5487
Image Segmentation (HP) - 16864
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 8788
Face Detection (HP) - 25029
Pose Estimation (Q) - 18852
Text Classification (SP) - 2115
Machine Translation (HP) - 4266
Object Detection (SP) - 7449
Depth Estimation (Q) - 22207
Style Transfer (SP) - 95039
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8065S and Intel Arc B390

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released September 5, 2026 January 5, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Celestial
GPU Codename Gorgon Halo Panther Lake
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 or above - Intel Core Ultra X9 388H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 - Intel Core Ultra X9 378H
- Intel Core Ultra X7 368H
- Intel Core Ultra X9 388H
- Intel Core Ultra X7 358H
Laptop GPU ranking (17th and 63rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 3000 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 2560 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 12
Tensor Cores No 96
Ray-tracing Cores 40 12
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 16MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 192 GPixel/s 60 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 480 GTexel/s 120 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8065S +100%
15.4 TFLOPS
7.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 IGP
TGP 55 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 308 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

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

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