The Intel Panther Lake architecture Core Ultra X7 358H processor recently appeared in the Geekbench benchmark library, showing that its integrated graphics may have a maximum improvement of 91% compared to the existing Xe2 Arc iGPU.Information shows that this Core Ultra X7 358H is installed in an ASUS laptop and has 16 CPU cores (4 performance cores + 8 energy efficiency cores + 4 low-power energy efficiency cores), and 12 Xe3 GPU cores.
The Core Ultra X7 358H has 12 built-in Xe3 cores, running at a frequency of 2500MHz. According to speculation, the higher-end X9 series may provide a higher iGPU frequency, which is expected to reach 2800MHz.
In Geekbench's OpenCL running score, the Core Ultra X7 358H recorded two scores: 52946 points and 46841 points, which should correspond to different power consumption modes or power plans.
Compared with the existing 8-core Arc Xe2 iGPU (such as 140V), the performance improvement of this 12Xe Arc "Xe3" iGPU reaches 69%, and can reach up to 91%.
However, it should be noted that the default TDP of Panther Lake-H is 45W, which is higher than Lunar Lake’s 37W, and the number of cores has also increased by 50%.
Intel has previously claimed that Xe3 will have a 50% performance improvement compared to Xe2. This running score data indicates that this improvement is likely to be achieved or even surpassed in actual games.
