Intel's next-gen Panther Lake chips are packing Xe3 graphics that apparently smoked AMD's Radeon 840M by around 26 percent in early benchmark runs. The test involved a four-core Xe3 iGPU on an engineering sample, and the results hint at better efficiency rather than just throwing more cores at the problem. Intel seems focused on squeezing more performance per watt out of mobile platforms, where thermal headroom is always tight.
The 840M has been AMD's bread-and-butter iGPU for budget laptops, so a solid lead over that chip means baseline graphics capabilities are getting a real bump for entry-level machines. Real-world performance will depend heavily on memory configs and OEM tweaking since these early numbers come from synthetic loads, but the direction looks promising for people who want decent integrated graphics without needing a discrete card.
The 840M has been AMD's bread-and-butter iGPU for budget laptops, so a solid lead over that chip means baseline graphics capabilities are getting a real bump for entry-level machines. Real-world performance will depend heavily on memory configs and OEM tweaking since these early numbers come from synthetic loads, but the direction looks promising for people who want decent integrated graphics without needing a discrete card.
