Intel talks gaming on new Panther Lake built-in 12-core GPUs

Intel is displaying off its new Panther Lake laptop computer CPUs, set to start out showing in units in early 2026. They’re fairly darn thrilling for lots of causes, however avid gamers specifically will probably be eyeing up these Xe3 built-in graphics that are available 4-core and supercharged 12-core variants. Intel fellow Tom Peterson had a chat with Adam all about it in PCWorld’s newest YouTube video.

The 12-core model of the Panther Lake iGPU is clearly the one to observe, leaping core depend over Lunar Lake by 50 % and giving an enormous graphics enhance to thin-and-light laptops (and probably even PC gaming handhelds, at the moment dominated by AMD’s Ryzen Z sequence). Along with the same old energy enhance that newer chips get, the Xe3 sequence is getting new clever bias management powers for extra game-specific useful resource administration, x3 and x4 body era for all video games that assist XeSS 2, and a handful of different optimizations.

Tom’s an important visitor—whom you would possibly acknowledge from The Full Nerd podcast—however sadly he couldn’t get particular on that new Intel-Nvidia partnership. And there’s no information on when, or even when, all these NPUs popping up in “AI” PCs will really add one thing to gaming powers. Intel’s additionally not making devoted chips for handhelds like AMD is, although at the least one household from a serious producer (the MSI Claw) is obtainable in Intel taste.

For more information on Panther Lake, you’ll want to try Mark Hachman’s deep dive on the brand new chips. And subscribe to PCWorld’s YouTube channel if you wish to see extra movies like this one.