Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 let me play 'Battlefield 6' at 190 fps on a Lenovo ultraportable

How acold has Intel's embedded Arc graphics travel complete nan years? Enough to fto maine play Battlefield 6 astatine up to 190 fps successful 1080p, pinch nan graphics settings group to high, each connected an unassuming Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5. There was nary request for dedicated graphics, conscionable nan Intel Core Ultra X9 388H's built-in Arc B390 GPU.

There's a catch, of course: Intel's XeSS3 AI upscaling and 4X framework procreation is nan large logic why I was capable to spot specified precocious fps figures. I was playing Battlefield 6 on a controller, pinch nan Lenovo laptop connected to a TV, and I was amazed by really soft nan gameplay felt. There wasn't immoderate consciousness of lag for illustration I've seen successful earlier frame-gen implementations, though immoderate lag would astir apt beryllium much noticeable if I was playing pinch a precocious DPI gaming mouse.

Environmental details, shadows, lighting and particle effects besides looked flawless. If I was sitting connected a couch, I’d deliberation nan crippled was being powered by a console aliases a fund gaming PC. I didn’t get a chance to push nan solution up to 1440p, but it’d beryllium absorbing to spot if it could support astatine slightest 100 fps successful that mode.

Not each of Intel's Core Ultra 3 chips will execute specified lofty gaming heights, unfortunately. Only nan X7 and X9 chips see 12 Xe GPU cores and Arc B390 graphics. The remainder of nan Core Ultra 3 family has nan emblematic 4 Xe cores and basal Intel graphics.

Intel claims nan B390 is astir 80 percent faster than nan Radeon 890M, which is built into nan Ryzen HX370. Additionally, nan institution says nan caller GPU is 76 percent faster than its Arc 140T, and wide it should connection akin capacity to nan mobile RTX 4050 GPU.