Intel recently added another "Panther Lake" engineering sample to public benchmarking records. Geekbench reported a Core Ultra 7 366H processor featuring a four-core Xe3 integrated GPU built on the Intel 3 node. The system achieved a Vulkan API score of 22,813, placing this compact Xe3 configuration within the entry-level discrete GPU category. This score is roughly 26% higher than the 4-core AMD Radeon 840M and slightly surpasses the mobile GTX 1050 Ti, though it remains below the 8-core Radeon 860M. This indicates that Intel is now reaching performance levels similar to AMD's "Krackan Point" APUs with RDNA 3.5, making it suitable for gaming on the go.

The processor details in the listing match previous leaks. The Core Ultra 7 366H has a 16-core design, which includes 4 performance cores, 8 efficient cores, and 4 low-power efficient cores. It operates at a base clock speed of 2.00 GHz and can boost up to 4.8 GHz. The processor also includes approximately 18 MB of L3 cache. The Xe3 GPU increases its L2 cache to 4 MB in the 4-core configuration and 16 MB in the 12-core configuration, equating to 1 MB per core on the smaller tile and 1.5 MB per core on the larger tile. Additionally, Xe3 features updated ray tracing units with faster bounding-box traversal and a larger BVH cache, enhancing performance consistency in hybrid-rendered games. Nonetheless, this is an interesting preview of the upcoming "Panther Lake" Xe3 iGPU, and we expect to see more at CES 2026.