Early performance tests of Intel’s integrated Arc B390 GPU show strong results, placing it close to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4050, a low-end dedicated graphics card. This confirms that Intel’s latest integrated graphics solutions are becoming increasingly competitive.
A previous test by Digital Foundry had already suggested that the most powerful integrated GPUs in Intel’s Panther Lake series were promising, even managing to outperform the Radeon RX 6600 in Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing enabled.
Arc B390 Beats AMD’s Radeon 890M in Key Tests
Performance data shared by ComputerBase, using a Core Ultra X9 388H with an integrated Arc B390 GPU and LPDDR5X memory at 9,600 MT/s, places Intel’s solution ahead of AMD’s Radeon 890M at 1080p with a 25-watt TDP.
In 25-watt mode, Intel’s option is 63% faster, and in 65-watt mode it more than doubles AMD’s performance. This is a very large gap and serves as a clear warning to AMD, which plans to continue using the RDNA 3.5 architecture in its future mainstream APUs.
AMD still holds the title for the most powerful integrated GPU overall, as the Radeon 8060s clearly outperforms the Arc B390. However, that GPU is only found in very expensive systems, limiting its real-world accessibility.
In Cyberpunk 2077, running at 1200p resolution with medium settings (crowd density set to low), the Arc B390 achieves an average of 55.8 FPS in native rendering. By comparison, AMD’s Radeon 890M reaches just 31 FPS under the same conditions.
Intel has clearly done a solid job with its new generation of integrated GPUs. The Arc B390 meets expectations and sends a strong signal to AMD, which may need to rethink its medium-term strategy if it wants to remain competitive in this segment.
