Intel’s Core Ultra 200S “Arrow Lake” iGPU With Just 4 Xe Cores Provides Huge Uplift Over Previous Gen, Up To GTX 1050 Ti Gaming Performance

The Intel Xe “Alchemist” iGPU on Core Ultra 200S “Arrow Lake” CPUs can deliver satisfactory performance at 1080p but might need upscaling methods.

Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S CPUs offer 60 fps at 1080p Medium settings in many games, the biggest graphics uplift for Intel’s desktop processors

Intel’s latest Core Ultra 200S CPUs may have received mixed reception, but there are some good and bad points about the CPUs. While gaming isn’t their strong point, they are decent in productivity. However, as many gamers were looking forward to the performance uplift these chips can provide, it’s crucial to analyze how well these CPUs can perform with discrete GPUs or without them.

Unfortunately, the initial benchmarks don’t favor them with the former, but the latter seems to be satisfactory. The performance of integrated graphics on the Core Ultra 200S chips may have surpassed expectations. Unlike previous generations, the Core Ultra 200S brings powerful iGPUs based on the Arc Alchemist architecture.

In the recent review by ETA Prime, the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K was tested with its iGPU, which brings 4 Xe Cores and a clock speed of 2000MHz. This is quite inferior on paper compared to the iGPUs we see on the powerful APU solutions from AMD. However, the benchmarks show a big jump in gaming performance, so much so that the iGPU on the Core Ultra 9 285K matched the GTX 1050 Ti.

When tested in 3DMark Time Spy, the iGPU scored a good 2288 Graphics score, which is just 2% less than the 2336 points scored by the GTX 1050 Ti. The…