The back-and-forth between Intel and AMD continues. After AMD recently explained how it plans to respond to Intel’s Panther Lake, Tom Petersen has once again added fuel to the fire, stating that AMD’s integrated GPUs are “not that competitive.”
According to Petersen, current AMD integrated graphics solutions fall short in terms of performance and energy efficiency. This is not the first time Intel has made such a claim. However, AMD’s integrated GPUs have historically shown clear superiority over Intel’s solutions, and even in the current generation AMD still offers what is considered the most powerful integrated graphics option, the Radeon 8060S.
Intel’s Tom Petersen Criticizes the Competitiveness of AMD Integrated GPUs
Intel’s Xe3 architecture has proven to be solid, managing to outperform AMD’s Radeon 890M in raw performance, performance per watt, and ray tracing. Intel has done a good job with this architecture. That said, claiming that AMD’s solutions are not competitive goes too far, because they clearly are.
AMD plans to continue using the RDNA 3.5 architecture for its integrated GPUs, while also keeping an eye on RDNA 5. This newer architecture is expected to arrive in 2027 and will be used in high-end integrated graphics, with RDNA 3.5 remaining for mid-range and entry-level solutions.
Intel is also preparing new products. Its upcoming Xe4 architecture could be the step forward the company needs to strengthen its position in the integrated graphics market and compete more effectively with AMD, as well as with both AMD and NVIDIA in the dedicated graphics space.
