Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 Rewrites the Rules on AAA Gaming on an iGPU

With the Arc B390 built right in, Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 makes a discrete GPU optional for the first time.
PCMag Middle East Staff
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For as long as laptop buyers have had to make tradeoffs, the one nobody questioned was this: if you want to game, you carry the heavier machine. Integrated graphics were fine for everything else – browsing, video calls, the occasional older title – but the moment you asked one to run a proper AAA game at a playable frame rate, it simply wasn’t up to the task. That was just the deal, and the industry moved on accordingly.

Intel’s Core Ultra Series, codenamed Panther Lake, is the first serious attempt to change it.