The chip giant has an important ace up its sleeve. Lenovo China’s product manager noted on Weibo that Intel is developing a new one High performance integrated GPU to compete with AMD and that it will be used in next-generation processors known as Panther Lake.

The Panther Lake series will arrive after Lunar Lake and will focus on ultra-light premium notebooks and high-performance compact devices. There is still no specific release date, but if Intel keeps up the pace of previous generations, it should arrive in end of 2025that is, in a little over a year.

Why does Intel need a super integrated GPU?

Because AMD does things very well with their APUs, especially with integrated GPUs that mount this type of solution. We have the best example in Radeon 890Man integrated graphics card that’s so powerful it can outperform even a low-end dedicated graphics card like the GeForce GTX 1650.

We can also see the advantage that AMD has in the performance that consoles offer equipped with a Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU, such as the ASUS ROG Ally, compared to others configured with an Intel Core Ultra 100, such as the MSI Claw. Radeon GPUs perform better in games than Intel Arc GPUs and this is a clear obstacle for Intel to gain a foothold in this market.

Develop a high-performance integrated GPU capable of outperforming AMD alternatives It would open many more doors for Intel in the portable console market and would also strengthen its position in the market for notebook computers and compact and small computers.

What will be the new Intel graphics core?

Well, it could represent a very important leap, not only in terms of power, but also in terms of design and architecture, because theoretically will be based on the Xe3 “Celestial”, an architecture that will replace the Xe2 “Battlemage” that will use Intel Arrow Lake and Intel Lunar Lake processors.

It’s still too early to talk about the specs and technologies, but it is rumored that this new super integrated GPU could have 20 Xe3 cores, which would correspond to a configuration of 320 execution units and a total 2,560 shaders.

For comparison, the Intel Core Ultra 9-185 integrated GPU, which is the most powerful Intel currently has in the Meteor Lake generation, has 1024 shaderswhich means that we are talking about more than doubling the number of shaders that Intel Arc Graphics 128EU has, which is currently the most powerful integrated graphics core of Intel.

To further improve the performance of this new integrated GPU, Intel could incorporate a block L4 cachealso known as Adamantine cache, from up to 128 MB. With this type of cache, the key data that the GPU needs to work could be stored, reducing the reliance on RAM and allowing large bandwidth spikes to be generated.

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