AMD Radeon 860M vs Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) that utilizes 64 pipelines and 512 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 iGPU (4-Cores) over Radeon 860M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 860M
  • 55% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.1 vs 2 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 40% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (22K vs 16K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
41
24
20
11
-
The Witcher 3
19
18
11
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
39
26
19
9
-
Far Cry 6
31
26
16
9
-
Hogwarts Legacy
16
12
10
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
28
27
17
12
-
Ghost of Tsushima
16
12
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
19
13
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
29
22
15
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 26 -
1080p Ultra 20 -
1440p Ultra 14 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low High

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 2604 -
Solar Bay 11094 -
Port Royal 1046 -
Fire Strike 6772 -
Wild Life Extreme 5124 -
Night Raid 29064 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
22911
Background Blur 57.2 img/sec 37.6 img/sec
Face Detection 30.5 img/sec 17.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.83 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.16 Gpixels/sec 0.63 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 97.8 Gpixels/sec 60 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3933.5 FPS 3695.9 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
G2D Mark 918 -
DirectX 11 37 FPS -
DirectX 12 25 FPS -
GPU Compute 2434 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5]2139 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9]32 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 iGPU (4-Cores)
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
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 860M +101%
10338
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 2022 2902
Image Segmentation (HP) 3987 5473
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6657 2967
Face Detection (HP) 10337 6068
Pose Estimation (Q) 28437 8220
Text Classification (SP) 2326 609
Machine Translation (HP) 4011 1146
Object Detection (SP) 1995 2766
Depth Estimation (Q) 12031 6405
Style Transfer (SP) 56710 26796
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Xe LPG
GPU Codename Krackan Point -
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 140T - Radeon 740M
Successor - Radeon 8040S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 125U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 350
- Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225U
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235U
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255U
- and 12 more
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 96th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 600 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 3000 MHz 1750-2000 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 64
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 8 4
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 768KB shared
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 GPixel/s 28-32 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTexel/s 56-64 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3.1 TFLOPS
1.8-2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 14 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 -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

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

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