GeForce RTX 4090 vs Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) (28/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 4090:
  • + Higher Gaming score (93 vs 19)
Why choose Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (89 vs 43)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 89.0 Very Good WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 19.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Fire Strike 72432 —
Night Raid 195813 —
Port Royal 26127 —
Solar Bay 187525 —
Time Spy 36299 —
Wild Life Extreme 85218 —

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
CUDA 8.9 —
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
1080p High 255 —
1080p Ultra 217 —
1440p Ultra 177 —
4K Ultra 106 —
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 —
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 —
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 —
Far Cry 6 203179170104 —
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 —
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 —
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 —
Margin of Error Low —
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 —
The Witcher 3 292268191101 —

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 7794
Face Detection (HP) 78111 8563
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 2540
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 7387
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 4047
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 2228
Object Detection (SP) 21186 2725
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 11171
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 34572
Text Classification (SP) 4074 819

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 66.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 1.24 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 28.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 6543.8 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 102.4 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Architecture Ada Lovelace Xe LPG
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 —
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 —
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 5 135Hor above
Released September 20, 2022 December 14, 2023
Segment High-end Mid-range
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 -Intel Arc 140V
Vendor Nvidia Intel
AMD Equivalent — -Radeon 760M
Used in CPUs — -Intel Core Ultra 5 135H-Intel Core Ultra 7 155H-Intel Core Ultra 7 165H-Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Base Clock 2235 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2200-2350 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 1536KB shared
L2 Cache 72MB shared —
Ray-tracing Cores 128 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 32
Shading Units 16384 1024
Tensor Cores 512 —
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 64

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Bus 384-bit —
ECC No —
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps —
Memory Clock 2625 MHz —
Memory Size 24 GB —
Memory Type GDDR6X System Shared

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
DirectX 11 323 FPS —
DirectX 12 151 FPS —
G2D Mark 1303 —
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s —

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Die Size 609 mm² —
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 Ring Bus
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 28 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion —
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² —

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 70-75 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 141-150 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2025-11-08(Anuj) — GeekBench
📘 2026-01-15(Ak-Dev) — GeekBench
📘 2026-02-22(Catt) — Steel Nomad Light

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