Why Intel's Panther Lake Won Digital Foundry's CES 2026
Digital Foundry • • technology
Key Points:
- Intel stole the spotlight at CES 2026 with its new Panther Lake mobile platform, showcasing integrated graphics performance that surpasses expectations and rivals entry-level discrete GPUs like Nvidia RTX 4050 and AMD RX 6600.
- Panther Lake processors feature up to 16 CPU cores and 12 Xe graphics cores, built on Intel's cutting-edge 2nm-class 18A process, with configurations optimized for both integrated and discrete graphics usage.
- Benchmark tests on games like Cyberpunk 2077, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider demonstrated Panther Lake's integrated GPU delivering frame rates close to or exceeding those of AMD's Strix Point and Strix Halo APUs, as well as entry-level desktop GPUs.
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