Intel Showcased Panther Lake & Xe3 Graphics At Tech Tour Arizona 2025
👁 Intel Panther Lake with Xe3 Graphics
The Xe3 GPU is also much improved over Xe2. Interestingly Intel decided to market their Xe3 integrated graphics as the B-Series, rather than Celestial / C-Series. They decided to disconnect the branding from the Xe IP version.
👁 Intel Panther Lake Xe3 with 10-bit AV1 encode/decode
The Xe Media Engine with Panther Lake does add 10-bit AVC encode/decode, 10-bit AV1 encode and decode, and Sony XAVC-H / XAVC-HS / XAVC-S encode and decode.
👁 Intel Xe3 performance uplift
👁 Intel Xe3 on Panther Lake overview
The Intel Xe3 graphics should be quite exciting... We are eager to see how Intel Xe3 graphics perform under Linux. As covered in dozens of articles at this point already, Intel open-source engineers have been busy wiring up the Xe3 graphics support in the Linux kernel's Xe driver, Mesa Iris and ANV drivers, the Intel Compute Runtime, etc.
👁 Intel Panther Lake with power management improvements
There are Intel Thread Director and power management enhancements with Panther Lake. It will be interesting to see how the P vs. E core behavior is under Linux on the latest kernels relative to Microsoft Windows 11.
👁 Intel Panther Lake highlights
Those are the main takeaways for Intel Panther Lake right mow. It looks like we will need to wait until next year for the Panther Lake SKU table, more performance benchmarks, etc, and then ultimately getting our hands on Intel Panther Lake hardware for Linux compatibility/support testing and performance benchmarking at Phoronix. We'll see if Intel ends up providing a review sample or if it's yet another mobile Intel platform where I resort to buying retail hardware in order to provide Linux testing/coverage.
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