Intel’s new ‘Panther Lake’ chips, based on the 18A process node and equipped with Arc B390 integrated graphics, made their debut at CES 2026 with a focus on delivering best-in-class integrated GPU performance. Reporting from Digital Foundry highlights Intel’s performance claims in demanding games, positioning these mobile chips as a serious option for modern titles without a discrete GPU.
In Cyberpunk 2077, at 1080p resolution with the game set to ‘Ultra’ and with ray-traced shadows and reflections enabled, Intel’s top-tier Core Ultra X9 388H SKU achieves 28 FPS. Under the same settings, AMD’s ‘Strix Point’ Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with Radeon 890M graphics manages only 14 FPS, which suggests the ‘Panther Lake’ chip performs roughly twice as fast in these early game results. In Intel’s own testing, the ‘Panther Lake’ chip is 73% faster with upscaling technologies and 82% faster at native resolution compared to AMD’s ‘Strix Point,’ indicating an average advantage across multiple titles. Intel also notes that there are instances where the Arc B390 outputs 100% more frames compared to the Radeon 890M.
When compared to desktop graphics cards, Intel’s new integrated solution is now said to be comparable to the AMD Radeon RX 6600 discrete GPU, which scored 27 FPS in the same Cyberpunk 2077 game settings. Intel is working with game developers to integrate its latest XeSS3 multi-frame generation upscaling technology into many titles from launch, with Cyberpunk 2077 supported from day one and resulting in about a 3x increase in frame rates compared to XeSS2. Against NVIDIA, Intel claims XeSS3 can surpass DLSS on systems using the RTX 4050, particularly because XeSS3 supports multi-frame generation, which the RTX 4050 does not.
