Intel Core Ultra 7 258V beats AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme in a game benchmark

Intel's Lunar Lake lineup features the Xe2 LPG iGPU, and the company says that the Arc 140V that's found in some of the higher-end CPUs is the "world's best built-in GPU." While laptops featuring the new processors haven't hit the shelves yet, X user @GawroskiT appears to have got their hands on a system with the latest Intel Core Ultra 7 258V.

The user has put the new Arc 140V of the Lunar Lake lineup to the test by benchmarking it in Ashes of the Singularity and compared it against the Radeon 780M of AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme (1 TB Legion Go curr. $679.99 on Best Buy). Per the screenshots shared by the user, the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V had a noticeable lead.

More specifically, the Lunar Lake processor had an average framerate of 37.0 with an average CPU framerate of 66.4. In comparison, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme had 36.8 and 48.4, respectively. The performance gap widens when you consider the batches.

For example, in the "Normal Batch" of the benchmark, the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V gets a CPU frame rate of 80.5 with an average frame rate of 41.6. On the other hand, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme gets 48.8 and 43.3, respectively, on the same batch. The "Medium Batch" frame rates are also great for the Arc 140V, and it's only on the "Heavy Batch" where the new Lunar Lake APU struggles a bit.

It is worth noting that the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V laptop had 32 GB of RAM, while the Ryzen Z1 Extreme was working with 12 GB. This is important because iGPU's performance can noticeably improve when you allocate more system memory to the integrated graphics.

So, it's possible that the performance difference wouldn't have been this noticeable if both were tested with the same amount of RAM. But again, Intel promised that the Arc 140V would outperform the Radeon 890M, an upgraded RDNA 3.5 iGPU of Strix Point. Still, this is just a single benchmark, and you can't conclude the winner from just one comparison.