Your next Intel laptop could game much better without needing a GPU

Intel’s New iGPU Could Make Mid-Range Laptops a Lot More Powerful

By Moinak Pal Published December 11, 2025

Intel's Panther Lake chip on a gradient background — Intel

Intel’s next-gen integrated graphics, the Arc B370, just popped up in a new benchmark leak – and frankly, the numbers are shocking for a chip that lives directly on the CPU. Spotted inside an engineering sample of the Core Ultra 5 338H (part of the upcoming Panther Lake family), the chip was tested on FurMark’s 1440p OpenGL workload, hitting a score of 2,383 points.

To put that in perspective, this integrated chip is 33% faster than Intel’s actual desktop graphics card, the Arc A380, and 70% faster than the current Lunar Lake chips. Even more impressive? It did this while sipping just 36W of power, running at a cool 2.3 GHz.

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But the real headline here is the competition. The Arc B370 is dangerously close to NVIDIA’s RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU (which scored 2,485) and actually beats the standard RTX 3050 Laptop (2,186). For the first time, we are seeing integrated graphics that can genuinely replace a mid-tier dedicated video card.

Why This Is Important

Historically, OpenGL benchmarks were Intel’s kryptonite. Their drivers just couldn’t handle the older API well. Seeing the Arc B370 put up these numbers proves that Intel’s driver team has massively cleaned up its act and that the new Battlemage (Xe3) architecture is the real deal.

Here is the kicker: the B370 isn’t even the top dog. There is still a faster, higher-core-count Arc B390 expected to launch. This suggests that the performance ceiling for next-gen laptops is going to be significantly higher than what we are seeing here. It confirms that Intel is serious about killing off low-end discrete GPUs entirely.

Why You Should Care

For the average laptop buyer, this is great news. It means:

Thinner, cheaper laptops: You won’t need to pay extra for a bulky laptop with a dedicated graphics card just to play casual games.
Better battery life: A powerful iGPU is way more efficient than firing up a separate, power-hungry graphics card.
Smarter performance: You get better AI and multimedia handling natively.

If these numbers translate to real-world gaming, 2026 laptops are going to offer a massive upgrade in performance-per-watt.

What’s Next

We likely won’t see the full picture until CES 2026, where Intel is expected to officially unveil Panther Lake. But with the B370 and B390 already leaking competitive scores, the pressure is officially on AMD and NVIDIA to rethink their mobile strategies.

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