The new Intel Arc B370, based on the Xe3 “Battlemage” architecture and designed for the upcoming Panther Lake processors, has managed to outperform AMD’s Radeon 890M.
What’s most surprising about the Intel Arc B370 is its efficiency. While the top-end Arc B390 features 12 Xe3 cores, the B370 uses a slightly reduced configuration of only 10 cores. Despite this, synthetic benchmarks like PassMark show that Intel’s solution reaches 8,558 points — about 5% higher than AMD’s Radeon 890M, based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture.
Power and Efficiency in One Package
This performance gain is impressive, as the Radeon 890M serves as the integrated GPU for AMD’s powerful Ryzen AI 300 “Strix Point” chips. Intel surpassing AMD with a “secondary” version of its architecture highlights the major generational leap achieved with Xe3.
The Xe3 architecture isn’t just powerful — it’s also efficient. Built using TSMC’s 3nm process, it delivers exceptional performance per watt. Intel has also introduced new exclusive technologies such as Multi-Frame Generation (MFG), which can multiply frame rates by up to four times. This allows demanding games to surpass 100 FPS at 1080p resolution — something unimaginable for an integrated GPU just a few years ago.
With the arrival of the Arc B370 inside new Core Ultra 5 processors, users will soon have access to thin and lightweight laptops that can still deliver strong gaming performance. In real-world gaming scenarios, Intel’s advantage over AMD is expected to range between 20% and 30%, potentially making Panther Lake laptops the preferred choice among mid-range gamers.
