Intel may have finally caught up to AMD in iGPU performance — Meteor Lake's Arc iGPU edges out AMD Phoenix's RDNA 3 iGPU in gaming and synthetic benchmarks

Intel Meteor Lake Graphics presentation slide deck.

Intel's brand-new Meteor Lake CPUs might find a niche as powerful gaming processors thanks to their powerful integrated graphics. In a review by Golden Pig Upgrade, the Core Ultra 7 155H could barely overtake AMD's Ryzen 7 7840HS in gaming and synthetic iGPU benchmarks. It's the first time AMD has lost its lead in integrated graphics since 2019.

Meteor Lake CPUs use a combination of chiplets (or tiles as Intel calls them) to make a complete processor, and this has allowed Intel to equip high-end Meteor Lake chips with a massive integrated GPU. With 128 execution units, this graphics chip is 50% larger than Intel's integrated graphics in Tiger Lake, Alder Lake, and Raptor Lake. Meteor Lake uses the newer Xe-LPG architecture instead of Xe-LP, which is quite old.