Intel Razor Lake-AX could double the performance of AMD Strix Halo with 32 Xe3 cores

Intel Razor Lake is expected to come onto the market in 2027. Over the past few days, there have already been rumors circulating that Intel Razor Lake-HX will have integrated RAM, similar to Lunar Lake. Although this makes the chips more expensive, it also enables a higher memory bandwidth, which benefits not least the GPU integrated into the chip.

For this reason, high-performance APUs such as the Apple M5 Max or the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 also rely on integrated RAM. The usually extremely reliable leaker @jaykihn0 has now provided further information on the features of Razor Lake-HX. According to this, the chips will be equipped with a GPU with either 16 or 32 Xe3 cores. Compared to the fastest iGPU from Intel Panther Lake, the Arc B390, the top model has has exactly three times as many compute units. While no details on the clock rates or TDP are yet known, GPU cores generally scale relatively linearly, meaning that the performance can already be estimated based on benchmarks of the Arc B390.

Our GPU benchmarks indicate that the Intel Razor Lake-HX iGPU can outperform the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 laptop GPU even with ray tracing enabled. Compared to the Radeon 8060S from AMD Strix Halo, Intel's next-generation flagship iGPU should achieve more than double the performance, although AMD's next flagship APU, Medusa Halo, should already be available by the time this chip is launched. The performance of Intel Razor Lake-HX should therefore be sufficient to run most games smoothly in 1,080p resolution with high to maximum level of detail, without the need for a dedicated graphics chip.