More powerful Arc GPUs will arrive this summer.
The answer, at least for now, is “better than Intel’s integrated Xe graphics,” which was the primary comparison that the company gave as part of its announcement. Unfortunately, Intel glaringlyprovide benchmarks on how any of its Arc GPUs, present or future, might compare to competing discrete Nvidia or AMD or against the integrated GPUs in Apple’s M1-series chips.
One thing that does seem certain, though, is that Intel’s best GPUs — at least this year — won’t be aiming to be the absolute best graphics you can get on a laptop. “We’re not going to be scaling it to, like, the absolute ultra performance, that type of thing,” says Chandler. “It’s really kind of that mainstream performance where you can a really solid gaming experience [and a] great creator experience.