- Intel just revealed its new Panther Lake lineup with integrated graphics at CES 2026.
- The iGPU delivered impressive performance, achieving 81 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077.
- It even managed to approach discrete GPU performance in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
iGPUs have gotten pretty good in recent years. In fact, high-end offerings are so powerful now that you can do AAA gaming on them too. Intel revealed its latest Panther Lake processors at CES 2026, and they offer great gaming performance.
Early testing at CES shows that Intel’s latest Core Ultra 3 series with iGPU can get really close to discrete GPUs in gaming performance, with Cyberpunk 2077 hitting an average of 81 FPS. Shadow of Tomb Raider also averaged over 70 FPS.
Why it matters: Integrated graphics have reached a point where they are good enough for heavy gaming, and it seems even more impressive given the laptops that feature them come in convenient form factors.
PC World benchmarked the Intel Panther Lake iGPU chips and compared the results with other integrated GPUs and even full-fledged discrete graphics cards, and the results, to put it simply, are shockingly impressive.
The chip used for testing was a Core Ultra X9 388H with built-in Arc B390 graphics. It averaged 81 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 on low settings with XeSS enabled. The competition fell well behind, with Ryzen AI 9 chips managing just 58 FPS.
In the Shadow of Tomb Raider, it went toe-to-toe with discrete cards, and yes, it couldn’t outmatch them, but what’s really impressive is that it managed to keep up. At 1080p highest setting, it averaged around 75 FPS.
Laptops with RTX 3060 and 4050 did show better performance, but what Panther Lake managed just with iGPU is amazing. Nonetheless, this is just early testing; let’s wait and see how it stacks up against the latest AMD and Snapdragon iGPUs later.
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