GeForce RTX 5090 vs Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) (26/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5090:
  • + Higher Gaming score (100 vs 16)
Why choose Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (93 vs 48)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 16.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Fire Strike 87569 —
Night Raid 206648 —
Port Royal 38202 —
Solar Bay 236689 —
Time Spy 46873 —
Wild Life Extreme 108751 —

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
CUDA 12.0 —
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
1080p High 299 —
1080p Ultra 254 —
1440p Ultra 207 —
4K Ultra 125 —
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 —
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 —
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 —
Far Cry 6 237202190121 —
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 —
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 —
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 —
Margin of Error Low —
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 —
The Witcher 3 364327237123 —

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 6405
Face Detection (HP) 114685 6068
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 2902
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 5473
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 2967
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 1146
Object Detection (SP) 27802 2766
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 8220
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 26796
Text Classification (SP) 4464 609

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 37.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 0.63 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 17.2 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 0.94 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 3695.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 60 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Xe LPG
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 —
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 —
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 5 125Uor above
Released January 7, 2025 December 14, 2023
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Intel
AMD Equivalent — -Radeon 740M
Used in CPUs — -Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX-Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus-Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus-Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus-Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus-Intel Core Ultra 5 225U-Intel Core Ultra 5 235U-Intel Core Ultra 7 255U- and 12 more

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Base Clock 2017 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1750-2000 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 64
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 768KB shared
L2 Cache 96MB shared —
Ray-tracing Cores 170 4
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 16
Shading Units 21760 512
Tensor Cores 680 —
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 32

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Bus 512-bit —
ECC No —
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps —
Memory Clock 1750 MHz —
Memory Size 32 GB —
Memory Type GDDR7 System Shared

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
DirectX 11 341 FPS —
DirectX 12 179 FPS —
G2D Mark 1410 —
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s —

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Die Size 750 mm² —
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 14 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion —
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² —

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 28-32 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 56-64 GTexel/s

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