News Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition GPU listed for $250 at US retailer — Battlemage prepares to rock the GPU market

[Admin]

Intel seems to be preparing a special "Limited Edition" version of the leaked B580 Battlemage GPU - priced at $250 per leaks.

Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition GPU listed for $250 at US retailer — Battlemage prepares to rock the GPU market : Read more

 

[DS426]

How has Intel said nothing about desktop Battlemage's launch? Everything is pointing to market availability in 3-4 weeks from now.

If they don't have any hype and buzz to build, their confidence in it must be quite low.

 

[why_wolf]

How has Intel said nothing about desktop Battlemage's launch? Everything is pointing to market availability in 3-4 weeks from now.

If they don't have any hype and buzz to build, their confidence in it must be quite low.

Unfortunately you are probably right. If they had a real winner on their hands they would be crowing about it non-stop for no other reason than to boost their stock price and pacify investors.

Probably our only hope is that it's a sleeper hit that wins on having a good performance/price ratio. On that front they can definitely beat Nvidia who is just milking their customers at this point. But AMD can't let Intel squeeze them from the bottom while Nvidia is crushing them at the top already.

So maybe a price war on the bottom tier? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[rluker5]

I don't like how this makes it look like the B770 will be $350-$400, but I hope the return of the LE edition is true.
An LE B770 is just what I want.

 

[thisisaname]

47% increase in price, that is quite a large generational price increase.

 

[Notton]

looking at the old benchmarks of the A580, it didn't seem like it would benefit from 12GB VRAM, but I guess we'll see.
My gut instinct says this would be a good replacement for the RTX 3060 12GB, especially if you're doing something other than gaming on it.

 

[Warrior24_7]

Intel has not marketed Battlemage. What is consumer enthusiasm for it? There is more information out there on the RTX 5090 than Battlemage! They seem to be competing with last Gen cards. If Battlemage struggles, how long will Intel support it?

 

[Pei-chen]

How long will Intel be around? How many people will buy a GPU if driver support might end in 2 years because the manufacturer went bankrupt?

 

[systemBuilder_49]

47% increase in price, that is quite a large generational price increase.

I don't think it's a price increase compared to the original MSRP of A580. People are forgetting the entire Arc series of graphics cards missed performance targets by one generation and they were discounted by almost 25% right away....

 

[thisisaname]

I don't think it's a price increase compared to the original MSRP of A580. People are forgetting the entire Arc series of graphics cards missed performance targets by one generation and they were discounted by almost 25% right away....

I'm just going from the price listed in the article.