Gaming: Digging A Little Deeper Into Intel's Xe3 Architecture Shows Exactly...

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After the early promises of how good Intel's Xe3 GPU architecture could be, thanks to Intel's breakdown of the changes implemented to everything, we finally got to test one properly last month in the form of a Panther Lake laptop. And you know what? It is good. Very good, in fact.

On paper, that should be a given. Intel's Arc B390 only sports 1536 shaders, but with 16 MB of L2 cache and a boost clock of 2.5 GHz, that's way more potent than most integrated GPUs.

Leaving aside AMD's Ryzen AI Max chips (aka Strix Halo), as they're less an APU with a big iGPU and more of a small GPU with some CPU chips bolted to it, the most appropriate competition for the B390 is AMD's Radeon 890M and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5050.

Source: PC Gamer