Intel Panther Lake leak: Next-gen iGPU shows RTX-level 3D performance

It’s been promised for years: a mobile processor with an integrated GPU capable of running AAA games. Recent Geekbench leak of Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake processors It appears that day may soon arrive.

Excitement has already been high for Intel’s next-generation mobile chips, which are the first of their kind to be manufactured using them Intel 18A 2nm process. Every chip release is important, but Panther Lake is crucial to Intel as it tries to fend off advances from rivals Apple, AMD and Qualcomm.

The chipmaker will officially launch its Core Ultra Series 3 processors developed under the codename Panther Lake in CES Come January, and the show will be full of laptops based on the new processors. But we don’t need to wait until then to see the first benchmarks from the Panther Lake laptop.

Tiger Lake leak Geekbench

Listen, it’s easy to accidentally post a Geekbench score. If you take the test without entering your license first, the result will be uploaded to Geekbench, which is public and easily searchable. So, this isn’t the first time that Geekbench scores for a laptop have been released before the laptop itself.

that Eagle Eye Editor at Wccftech I spied a Geekbench 6 GPU test result For Samsung Galaxy Book 6 Pro laptop with Intel Core Ultra X7 358H CPU, 32GB RAM, and Intel Arc B390 integrated graphics. The Core Ultra X7 358H features 16 cores, and the iGPU is based on Intel’s Xe3 architecture.

The Galaxy Book Pro is a thin, light and ultra-portable device that’s about as far from a gaming laptop as you can get, however, the yet-to-be-released Galaxy Book 6 Pro showed some graphics prowess based on its OpenCL score. Its score of 57,001 nearly matches the score of 58,044 for a laptop with an RTX 3050 Ti GPU and easily surpasses the score of 50,915 for the RTX 3050 laptop.

Meanwhile, a laptop with Intel’s current Arc 140V integrated graphics built on the Xe2 architecture managed a score of 27,666 points. Based on these numbers, we’re looking at a more than 2x improvement from Arc’s 2nd generation Lunar Lake graphics to 3rd generation Panther Lake graphics.

Some warnings:

• Geekbench is an artificial benchmark and not a true test of real-world 3D performance. Until we can put out some games on Panther Lake’s iGPU, we won’t be able to form a full opinion on its capabilities.
• The OpenCL GPU test isn’t as good an indicator of 3D performance as the Vulkan GPU test, which is why we run the Vulkan test for our laptop reviews.

Panther Lake portables too?

In addition to getting thinner and lighter gaming laptops next year with Intel’s Panther Lake CPUs, it looks like we’ll also see… Mobile games With new chips. According to reportsIntel will release a Panther Lake processor specifically for mobile devices that could appear next year in a follow-up to the Lunar Lake-based processor The MSI Claw that we first saw last year at CES.