Intel announces Arc B580 at $249 and Arc B570 GPUs at $219

[cm2]

Intel Arc Battlemage Series
VideoCardz.com	Intel Arc B580	Intel Arc B570
GPU	Battlemage BGM-G21	Battlemage BGM-G21
Xe-Cores	20 Xe2	18 Xe2
GPU Clock	~2.67 GHz	~2.6 GHz
Memory	12GB GDDR6	10GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	192-bit	160-bit
Memory Speed	19 Gbps	19 Gbps
Maximum Memory Bandwidth	456 GB/s	380 GB/s
PCIe Interface	PCIe 4.0×8	PCIe 4.0×8
Board Power	190W	150W
Launch Date	December 13, 2024	December 13, 2024
MSRP	$249	$219

 

[Demon_Skeith]

These seem like tame GPUs.

 

[cm2]

If Intel manages to iron out all the incompatibility issues running games with this one then it's a great value GPU, better than the RTX 4060, Because of the VRAM amount.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

If Intel manages to iron out all the incompatibility issues running games with this one then it's a great value GPU, better than the RTX 4060, Because of the VRAM amount.

Think I heard they fired their CEO if that helps.

 

[cm2]

Think I heard they fired their CEO if that helps.

yeah that could help. Many blunders under his leadership.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

yeah that could help. Many blunders under his leadership.

Pretty sure he was trying to clean up the last guy's mess as well?

 

[froggyboy604]

I wonder when will Intel GPU will drop in price to attract more buyers.

 

[cm2]

Gamer Nexus said they found only 2 driver errors this time. Looks like Intel is doing pretty good with Battlemage. The gaming performance benchmarks are pretty good too for its class. nice!

 

[froggyboy604]

It is nice to hear that Intel's new video cards are reliable, and benchmarks are good for its class.

 

[cm2]

So read from neogaf the GPU has issues on older systems.

With low end or older CPUs, Battlemage GPUs have huge performance drops in CPU heavy games. Much greater than GPUs from AMD or Nvidia. This drop is so big, it makes the B580 to have performance on par with a GTX 1060.
This means that buying a B580 to make a quick and cheap upgrade for an older or low end system, will have performance issues in several games. Also, ReBar continues to be very important for Intel GPUs to have good performance. So make sure your system has this feature enabled. Intel has been notified and is working to find out what is the problem with their drivers.