Intel Arc 140T Yields 39,577 Points in Geekbench Vulkan Test, Noticeably Faster than Arc 140V
Intel Lunar Lake is popular due to bringing powerful graphical performance via its Xe2-based integrated graphics. This is why companies like MSI have deployed one of such chips in its latest Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+ gaming handhelds, which outperforms good handhelds in performance such as the ROG Ally X.
That said, these bring only an 8-core/8-thread configuration, which makes them more suitable for budget mobile systems. On the other hand, the Core Ultra 200H aka Arrow Lake-H processors can go up as high as 16 cores on the flagship CPUs. Being equipped with Xe-based integrated graphics, one would expect that the GPU performance will be slower than the Lunar Lake iGPUs but one of the early benchmarks suggests otherwise.
One of the latest Geekbench tests shows that the Arc 140T on the Core Ultra 9 285H is significantly faster than the Arc 140V present on the Lunar Lake Core Ultra 9 288V flagship chip. As you can see, in the Vulkan test, the Arc 140T scored 39,577 points compared to 33,767 points by Arc 140V in a recent benchmark. This is a good 17% performance difference and goes higher when we consider previous benchmarks of Arc 140V.
Even though the Geekbench results aren’t very accurate, they pretty much sum up where a piece of hardware will end up in the list. The laptop benchmarked was an ASUS Zenbook 14 model: UX3405CA, which provides 16GB dedicated memory to the 140T. The Arc 140V on the other laptop also got 16GB VRAM to run but couldn’t outperform the 140T.
As far as the CPU performance goes, the 285H is going to be much faster since it brings higher core count and frequencies. We don’t know whether laptop and handheld vendors will utilize the Core Ultra 200H chips but they surely look powerful enough to run games at playable frame rates. This is a bit too early to say since cost is a major factor. This is why Strix Point APUs didn’t find their way on a lot of handhelds but since there are plenty of budget and mid-range chips in the Core Ultra 200H series, this could be possible for some vendors.
