Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime
Across the variety of different Intel GPU compute benchmarks conducted for this article, the Xe3 graphics with the Arc B390 in the Core Ultra X7 358H were performing exceptional. This open-source GPU compute stack was running stable and delivering very strong performance relative to prior generations of Intel laptop graphics and against the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" competition with the Radeon 890M graphics. Consistently great performance for the Arc B390 Panther Lake graphics in OpenCL workloads and more while being able to enjoy a fully open-source driver stack, similar to AMD but unlike NVIDIA.
The SoC power consumption of the Core Ultra X7 358H was also slightly lower on average than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 at 21.3 vs. 23 Watts but with a much higher peak power consumption at 51 Watts versus 36 Watts for the Strix Point laptop tested.
This was a great first showing for the GPU compute performance with the Intel Compute Runtime stack for the Xe3 graphics on Panther Lake. Hopefully this continues evolving nicely and also a great early sign for the Xe3P graphics with the Intel Compute Runtime to be found with Nova Lake as well as the Crescent Island accelerator.
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