Together with SolidWorks and Creo, Autodesk Inventor is one of the most important 3D CAD programs for mechanical engineering, product development and technical design. Its widespread use in engineering offices, manufacturing companies and educational institutions makes it a central testing ground for professional workstation GPUs. With the InvMark add-on, a specialized benchmark for Inventor Professional, typical parts of the workflow – from sketching and drawing to assembly handling and simulations – can be measured reproducibly. This makes InvMark a practical tool that not only maps pure graphics performance, but also CPU interaction, memory bandwidth and driver quality.
In the overall result, the Intel Arc Pro B60 with 60,796 points is almost on a par with the Radeon Pro W7600 and only around two percent behind the more powerful Radeon Pro W7700. Compared to the B50 (60,620 points), the lead is small but measurable. The difference is primarily due to the slightly higher clock rate and the increased memory bandwidth, while the pure architecture remains identical. However, it is worth noting that the B60 does not benefit significantly from the PCIe 5.0 connection in the overall result, which indicates a stable but not yet fully optimized workstation driver base.
In the single-threaded performance, which maps the sequential processing of typical design operations (e.g. sketching, extrusion, feature editing), the B60 achieves exactly the same value as the Radeon Pro W7600 with 17,324 points. The CPU clearly dominates here rather than the GPU, which is reflected in the small gaps between the cards. Only the NVIDIA models of the Ada generation stand out slightly due to their finely tuned drivers and API accelerations, while the Intel and AMD cards perform at an almost identical level.
In the multi-thread test – a measurement of computationally intensive tasks such as rendering, rebuilds of complex assemblies or parallel calculations – all cards are in the range of 12,300 to 12,700 points. The B60 and B50 achieve 12,387 points here and demonstrate that the platform has a stable driver and thread distribution. The marginal gap to NVIDIA can be explained by their stronger CPU offload mechanisms in the Inventor driver.
The graphics performance, measured in terms of interactivity in the 3D viewport (rotation, zoom, visualization), is solid for the Intel Arc Pro B60 with 1,582 points. This puts it on a par with the Radeon Pro W7600 and only around six percent behind the RTX A1000. The difference to the larger Ada cards is primarily due to their optimized shader pipeline and occlusion culling mechanisms. However, for practical Inventor scenarios, such as in design or presentation mode, the B60 is completely sufficient and smooth.
In the drawing test, which evaluates 2D output and the handling of technical drawings, the B60 remains on a par with the competition with 1,670 points. This is where Intel’s experience with 2D accelerators pays off: The driver prioritizes line rasterization and layer display efficiently, which enables a high response speed in complex layouts.
Dynamic simulation places higher demands on memory latency and geometry processing. With 2,278 points, the B60 lies between the Radeon and NVIDIA cards, just below the Radeon Pro W7600 and significantly above the B50. This shows that the additional bandwidth and extended power supply of the B60 is effective in dynamic workloads, while the B50 reaches its thermal limits here.
In the assembly constraint test, which measures stability and precision in the calculation of assembly dependencies, the B60 came second with 1,824 points – only slightly behind the Radeon Pro W7700. This shows that Intel’s workstation driver harmonizes very well with Inventor’s constraint solvers.
The assembly pattern test, which examines the duplication and placement of complex assemblies, confirms this impression: With 1,862 points, the B60 is almost on a par with the B50, the Radeon cards and the RTX A1000. The CPU is the main limiting factor here, while the GPU has hardly any influence.
Interim conclusion
The Intel Arc Pro B60 delivers a consistently coherent picture in the Inventor benchmark. It is positioned in the upper midfield, just below the professional Ada models and on a par with AMD’s Radeon Pro series. Although the increase in performance compared to the B50 is moderate, it is reproducible and, above all, thermally and electrically stable. Its greatest strength lies in its consistent performance across all areas – without any weaknesses in 2D, viewport or simulation. For small and medium-sized engineering offices that work with Autodesk Inventor and value solid efficiency at a manageable price, the Arc Pro B60 is therefore an interesting alternative to the established workstation cards.
- 1 - Intro, overview and technical data
- 2 - Test system and equipment
- 3 - Teardown: PCB, topology and components
- 4 - Teardown: Cooler and fan
- 5 - Teardown: Material analysis and TIM testing
- 6 - Autodesk AutoCAD
- 7 - Autodesk Inventor Pro
- 8 - PTC Creo
- 9 - Dassault Systèmes Solidworks
- 10 - Autodesk Maya
- 11 - SPECviewperf 15 (2025)
- 12 - Adobe Photoshop 26.10
- 13 - Adobe After Effects 2025
- 14 - Adobe Premiere Pro 25.41
- 15 - AI benchmarks (AI Vision, Image, Text)
- 16 - Rendering
- 17 - Temperatures, clock rate, power consumption, noise
- 18 - Summary and conclusion
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