Intel Panther Lake Gaming Benchmarks Revealed With Tom “TAP” Petersen

In case you missed the memo, Intel has officially launched its Core Ultra Series 3 processors, codenamed Panther Lake. These chips are a significant step forward for the brand, with new architectures on every single major IP block: new P-cores, new E-cores, new Xe3 GPU cores, and a new NPU design. We've already written at length about that, though; today we're here to brag about getting to go hands on with a machine sporting the top-end Core Ultra X9 388H chip and its powerful Arc B390 graphics.

How powerful? Well, Intel let us run a few benchmarks on it so we could bring you data for you to judge for yourself. We selected some games from our test suite for which we had comparative data and put the machine through its paces briefly to see if the Arc B390 GPU holds up to Intel's lofty claims. Spoilers ...