Next month, laptops will be equipped with Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs, featuring more powerful integrated Arc graphics. Leaked benchmarks have revealed impressive performance, highlighting the competitiveness of this Alchemist solution.

According to Wccftech, the benchmark was posted by Benchleaks on X (formerly Twitter) and was obtained from an MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo laptop with the Core Ultra 7 155H processor. In the Geekbench 5 OpenCL test, the integrated Arc GPU obtained a score of 27,249 points, placing it in close competition with AMD’s Radeon 780M.

It’s important to note that the AMD chip is running at 30W compared to 28W for the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, giving Intel a slight power usage advantage. Additionally, Nvidia’s GTX 1060 is only 10% faster than the Core Ultra 7 processor’s Alchemist graphics.

Looking ahead, Intel’s Arc driver is expected to undergo further optimization work, and the integration of Intel XeSS frame rate boosting tech promises even faster frame rates for Meteor Lake CPUs.

While Geekbench may not be the ideal benchmark for gaming performance, the results are promising and contribute to the growing evidence that next-gen integrated GPUs will offer significantly more power than previous models. This could lead to more affordable gaming laptops capable of robust 1080p gaming on the go.

In addition to Meteor Lake processors, AMD also has Strix Point models featuring Zen 5 CPU cores and RDNA 3 refresh graphics lined up for 2024. These developments indicate that more affordable, slim, and powerful gaming laptops that do not require a discrete GPU are on the horizon.

Overall, the benchmarks showcase the potential for integrated GPUs to provide impressive performance, potentially reducing the reliance on standalone graphics cards in the future.