News Intel announces the Arc B580 and Arc B570 GPUs priced at $249 and $219 — Battlemage brings much-needed competition to the budget graphics card market

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Intel officially announced its first two budget-mainstream Battlemage GPUs today, the Arc B580 and Arc B570. Priced aggressively at $249 and $219, respectively, the new architecture offers performance and efficiency improvements that should give Nvidia some much-needed competition. Intel also talked about XeSS 2, with frame generation and low latency modes designed to take on Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR3.

Intel announces the Arc B580 and Arc B570 GPUs priced at $249 and $219 — Battlemage brings much-needed competition to the budget graphics card market : Read more

 

[Loadedaxe]

Nice write up. I will be an early adopter just like the A750. 12GB of vram will be nice. Let’s hope drivers are mature enough.

 

[tommo1982]

Nice write up. I will be an early adopter just like the A750. 12GB of vram will be nice. Let’s hope drivers are mature enough.

I'm interested in that as well. Technical changes are nice to read, in the end they matter little if Intel can't deliver on the software and hardware.
I'll be waiting for official reviews. Until then, rumors or not, B580 performance is unknown.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

I dont see the point of B570 at 220 USD. Makes more sense at 200 USD. Everyone is going to stretch and get the B580.

Hope the driver updates boosts the performance to more than 10% greater than 4060. With AMD's RDNA4 launch, Intel's win would be short lived, like 2 or 3 months max. And 2 more months, you will have the 5060.

 

[-Fran-]

Ok, give that price range, these actually look compelling options to consider, even if there's still some gremlins on release.

Sad they had to cancel the big die, since given the power and die size characteristics, it seems like they're very close to selling these at cost.

Regards.

 

[das_stig]

If NV had any sense, drop a 16GB 5060 with a little performance nudge, while keeping power requirements low, at the $250 price point and so long as it wipes the floor with 4060, it will wipe out Intel and AMD market share.

But as we know with NV, they will just hike the prices and try and milk the customer.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

They would rather use those dies for Quadro desktop and laptop SKUs for a 400 USD sticker price XD

 

[vanadiel007]

Well, bad timing with the crisis in South Korea. A lot of electronics and electronic components are manufactured there. Prices are going to swing wildly upwards just based on speculation.

Will be a very interesting shopping season coming up...

 

[spongiemaster]

I dont see the point of B570 at 220 USD. Makes more sense at 200 USD. Everyone is going to stretch and get the B580.

I doubt Intel is predicting significant retail sales of either of these cards. The bulk will go to OEM's.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

Reasonably priced with good amount of VRAM, just need to see the independent reviewer benchmarks and driver stability. I seriously hope this turns out to be a great little graphics card since Intel is in a bad place and they might axe their dGPU business if Battlemage doesn’t succeed.

 

[why_wolf]

I dont see the point of B570 at 220 USD. Makes more sense at 200 USD. Everyone is going to stretch and get the B580.

Hope the driver updates boosts the performance to more than 10% greater than 4060. With AMD's RDNA4 launch, Intel's win would be short lived, like 2 or 3 months max. And 2 more months, you will have the 5060.

That's exactly why its at $220. Its to make people spend that extra $30 bucks. Just like the base tier of a car. They don't really want to sell it, its just there to get you in the door so they can talk you into the LX model with heated seats instead.

 

[artk2219]

So far so good, I guess once we see the benchies we'll know for sure. Provided there aren't any major driver hangups this time, I may end up picking a few of these up for some future builds. I've avoided the A series for builds for others since I cant guarantee their performance, or how stable they will be. I have an A770 16GB for myself thats in use at my in laws, and its worked great after I troubleshot a few things. However it would be nice to finally be able to include these in computers that I build for others.

 

[pug_s]

Intel announce the release of these GPU's the day after Pat Gelsinger 'retires.' I'm not confident about these GPU's.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

My experience with Arc over the past couple of years is that drivers have improved quite a bit, but it's mostly for stuff that doesn't get actively benchmarked by people like me. I haven't tested a DX9 or DX10 game in close to a decade I would say. But having support for older games is important, and the good news is that with the DX9 wrapper Intel created over a year ago, most of the compatibility problems were addressed AFAIK.

I am equally sure there are still plenty of edge cases — "But game [x] doesn't run properly on Arc!" I think one of the games someone mentioned to me was an older Mass Effect, which worked at one point and then stopped working with newer drivers? But broadly speaking, if you're not routinely dabbling in more esoteric games (meaning, smaller indie games, or stuff from years ago that you just felt like playing), Arc GPUs are fine.

The transistor density and power efficiency are still odd, though. They're far lower than competing GPUs. I don't know if Intel is using automated layout algorithms that just aren't tuned as well, or if there's something else at play. But when you look at "10% faster than RTX 4060" and tack on "while using 50% more power" it shows there's still a lot of room for improvement. We'll see how it goes once I get drivers and run a bunch of benchmarks.

 

[simtub]

Do these cards have Intel QuickSynch tech built in? If so I’m buying one solely for video editing at 10bit 4:2:2 alongside my AMD cpu.

 

[jlake3]

I doubt Intel is predicting significant retail sales of either of these cards. The bulk will go to OEM's.

Intel has been TERRIBLE at landing dGPU design wins with your big Dells and HPs of the OEM landscape, though.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Do these cards have Intel QuickSynch tech built in? If so I’m buying one solely for video editing at 10bit 4:2:2 alongside my AMD cpu.

Yes, as far as I can tell, it's the same video codec support as previously, but it wasn't a focus of the briefing. There are probably upgrades to the MFX blocks (Multi Format X-coders) that handle video stuff, but I don't really recall anything being explicitly said. I think I'll go ping my Intel contacts on this to see if there's anything they want to add.

 

[Roy2001]

My A770 has been fine, powerful enough for 1080p for AAA games and 4k for CS2.

 

[Giroro]

I dont see the point of B570 at 220 USD..... Everyone is going to stretch and get the B580.

So you do, in fact, see the point of the B570 at $220.

 

[Giroro]

They announced just in time to completely miss Black Friday, and by extension, the holiday shopping season.

I bet somebody lost their job over that silly blunder...

 

[Urzu1000]

I'm a little surprised that the article didn't mention anything about transcoding capabilities, since the Alchemist cards were such a hit in the homelab space.

 

[User of Computers]

The transistor density and power efficiency are still odd, though. They're far lower than competing GPUs. I don't know if Intel is using automated layout algorithms that just aren't tuned as well, or if there's something else at play. But when you look at "10% faster than RTX 4060" and tack on "while using 50% more power" it shows there's still a lot of room for improvement. We'll see how it goes once I get drivers and run a bunch of benchmarks.

and that's not even considering the next generation, which will probably be a significant efficiency uplift.

 

[DS426]

If NV had any sense, drop a 16GB 5060 with a little performance nudge, while keeping power requirements low, at the $250 price point and so long as it wipes the floor with 4060, it will wipe out Intel and AMD market share.

But as we know with NV, they will just hike the prices and try and milk the customer.

A 16 GB GPU with a 128-bit mem bus? I'm not following. Well, then again, I see the trend with new games, and it's still certainly better than 8 GB on 128-bit bus.

 

[User of Computers]

A 16 GB GPU with a 128-bit mem bus? I'm not following.

It would be a clamshell configuration, like the 4060 ti 61GB

 

[thestryker]

Curious if these will require ReBar as Alchemist did (it was enabled for testing) as that's what stopped me from getting first gen Arc for an older system. Idle power consumption is also going to be important to consider since this was certainly an issue as well.

Overall this seems to be a solid offering for where it will fall in the market. Hopefully 1080p performance will be decent as I imagine most of these will be used there (though if native XeSS is as good as DLSS upscaling could be viable). Looking forward to the independent reviews and hopefully the promised performance will be delivered.