AMD Radeon 860M vs Intel Arc 130T

VS
AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point
Intel Arc 130T
Arrow Lake iGPU

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 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 860M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 860M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130T
  • Performs better (up to 33%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 26% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 3.1 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 58% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (36K vs 22K)
  • Has 75% more shading units (896 vs 512)
  • Features 112 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
41
24
20
11
46
26
21
10
The Witcher 3
19
18
11
-
37
29
22
10
Counter-Strike 2
39
26
19
9
40
28
22
-
Far Cry 6
31
26
16
9
34
28
23
11
Hogwarts Legacy
16
12
10
-
19
11
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
28
27
17
12
29
27
20
11
Ghost of Tsushima
16
12
9
-
22
14
11
-
Cyberpunk 2077
19
13
-
-
21
16
11
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
29
22
15
-
34
32
20
13
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 26 31
1080p Ultra 20 23
1440p Ultra 14 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 +33%
2904
Time Spy 2604 3409
Solar Bay 11094 12704
Port Royal 1046 1902
Fire Strike 6772 8001
Wild Life Extreme 5124 5990
Night Raid 29064 36940
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
22911
Arc 130T +58%
36282
Background Blur 57.2 img/sec 70.9 img/sec
Face Detection 30.5 img/sec 34.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.83 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.16 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.93 Gpixels/sec 1.96 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 97.8 Gpixels/sec 131.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3933.5 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 +26%
6126
G2D Mark 918 791
DirectX 11 37 FPS 43 FPS
DirectX 12 25 FPS 27 FPS
GPU Compute 2434 Ops/s 2665 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2139 & 335 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
198.36
Arc 130T +205%
604.09
Sources: Blender [9], [10]32 & 10 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 860M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer)GeekBench24017
📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer)Steel Nomad Light2476
📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36GeekBench24971
Intel Arc 130T
No benchmark results yet

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 +5%
7262
GB6 ML Half Precision
10338
9964
GB6 ML Quantized
5334
5008
Image Classification (SP) 2022 3978
Image Segmentation (HP) 3987 8374
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6657 5792
Face Detection (HP) 10337 13023
Pose Estimation (Q) 28437 16149
Text Classification (SP) 2326 1356
Machine Translation (HP) 4011 2594
Object Detection (SP) 1995 4754
Depth Estimation (Q) 12031 12040
Style Transfer (SP) 56710 51653
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Intel Arc 130T

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 6, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Xe+
GPU Codename Krackan Point Arrow Lake iGPU
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140T - Radeon 840M
Successor - Radeon 8040S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 350
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225H
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 98th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 600 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 3000 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 512 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 28
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 7
Tensor Cores No 112
Ray-tracing Cores 8 7
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 GPixel/s 62 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3.1 TFLOPS
Arc 130T +26%
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 35 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 233 mm² -
Transistor Count 34 billion -
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 110°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1

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