{"id":473450,"date":"2026-02-11T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473450\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:21:10","slug":"intel-arc-b390-achieves-12x-performance-and-8x-performance-per-watt-vs-gen9-igpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473450\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Arc B390 Achieves 12x Performance and 8x Performance-per-Watt vs Gen9 iGPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel&#8217;s 10 years of integrated graphics have yielded massive performance improvements, according to recent testing by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/review\/intel-gen9-xe3-b390-graphics\" target=\"_blank\">Phoronix<\/a>. The latest testing shows that moving from Intel Gen 9 integrated graphics in the &#8220;Kaby Lake&#8221; CPUs introduced in 2016 to the modern Intel Arc B390 with Xe3 cores in &#8220;Panther Lake,&#8221; results in a 12x performance boost and a 8x performance-per-watt efficiency increase. This is remarkable progress for Intel&#8217;s iGPU team, delivering steady performance improvements year-over-year, with a significant boost in recent years. Phoronix tested iGPUs of top-end Core models, including: Core i7 8550U &#8220;Kaby Lake,&#8221; Core i7 8565U &#8220;Whiskey Lake,&#8221; Core i7 1065G7 &#8220;Ice Lake,&#8221; Core i7 1185G7 &#8220;Tiger Lake,&#8221; Core i7 1280P &#8220;Alder Lake,&#8221; Core Ultra 7 155H &#8220;Meteor Lake,&#8221; Core Ultra 7 258V &#8220;Lunar Lake,&#8221; and finally the Core Ultra X7 358H &#8220;Panther Lake&#8221; processor.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest among these is the &#8220;Kaby Lake&#8221; generation, which utilized Intel UHD Graphics 620 on Gen 9 architecture, while the newest is Intel&#8217;s most powerful creation to date\u2014Arc B390 based on Xe3 cores. Comparing the 14 nm FinFET Intel node to the TSMC N3E node reveals a massive gap not only in performance but also in efficiency. In the geometric mean of all test results, Intel has achieved an 11.97x performance improvement from the 14 nm Gen 9 iGPU era to the modern 3 nm Xe3 iGPU era. This performance increase is accompanied by a significant efficiency gain, resulting from new nodes and more work done per watt, which Phoronix calculated to be 8x. While the &#8220;Lunar Lake&#8221; platform is the smaller power consumer with an average power draw of 13.82 W and a maximum of 36.97 W, &#8220;Panther Lake&#8221; uses a slightly higher average of 26.86 W and a maximum draw of 55.59 W for nearly twice the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intel&#8217;s 10 years of integrated graphics have yielded massive performance improvements, according to recent testing by Phoronix. 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