Intel Arc 8-Core iGPU: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Arc 8-Core iGPU provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 18.60% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
Intel started Arc 8-Core iGPU sales 14 December 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Xe LPG architecture and made with 5 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Arc 8-Core iGPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 280 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Xe LPG | |
| GPU code name | Meteor Lake iGPU | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 14 December 2023 (less than a year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Arc 8-Core iGPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Arc 8-Core iGPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 8 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 2300 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Arc 8-Core iGPU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Shared memory | - |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Arc 8-Core iGPU, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12_2 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Arc 8-Core iGPU. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 8%
Send your test results of Arc 8-Core iGPU.
Gaming performance
Let's see how good Arc 8-Core iGPU is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 37 | |
| 1440p | 27 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | no data | |
| Battlefield 5 | no data | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | no data | |
| Far Cry 5 | no data | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | no data | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | no data | |
| Hitman 3 | no data | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | no data | |
| Metro Exodus | no data | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | no data | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | no data | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | no data |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | no data | |
| Battlefield 5 | no data | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | no data | |
| Far Cry 5 | no data | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | no data | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | no data | |
| Hitman 3 | no data | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | no data | |
| Metro Exodus | no data | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | no data | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | no data | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | no data | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | no data |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | no data | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | no data | |
| Far Cry 5 | no data | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | no data | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | no data | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | no data | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | no data | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | no data |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | no data |
1440p
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | no data | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | no data |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | no data | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | no data | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | no data | |
| Hitman 3 | no data | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | no data | |
| Metro Exodus | no data | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | no data | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | no data | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | no data |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | no data |
4K
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | no data | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | no data | |
| Hitman 3 | no data | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | no data | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | no data |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | no data | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | no data | |
| Far Cry 5 | no data | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | no data | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | no data | |
| Metro Exodus | no data | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | no data |
4K
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | no data |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Arc 8-Core iGPU according to our statistics.
