News Intel Arc B580 trades blows with the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 in early benchmarks — B580 beats A580 by up to 30% in OpenCL and Vulkan workloads

[Admin]

Intel's upcoming Arc B580 delivers respectable synthetic performance numbers in leaked OpenCL and Vulkan benchmarks.

Intel Arc B580 trades blows with the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 in early benchmarks — B580 beats A580 by up to 30% in OpenCL and Vulkan workloads : Read more

 

[awake283]

This is such great news. Competition benefits all of us!

 

[Mama Changa]

7600 is trash tier card, so hardly impressive at all. Needs to be trading blows with 7700XT.

 

[SSGBryan]

7600 is trash tier card, so hardly impressive at all. Needs to be trading blows with 7700XT.

Last time I checked - the 7700xt is a $400 video card.

 

[systemBuilder_49]

Intel has finally released a card to beat the 2Y old 4060, by up to 10%. So they are about 1Y behind NVidia. For the next 3 weeks, that is - until CES.

 

[CyberND]

This isn't as good, as I have hopped it to be. But this should still put some pressure on AMD and Nvidia, especially the VRAM capacity should do the job on that one. And if it would be about as good as the RX 6700 XT I think it would still be a relatively good deal. Not amazing but relatively good

 

[cyrusfox]

This isn't as good, as I have hopped it to be. But this should still put some pressure on AMD and Nvidia, especially the VRAM capacity should do the job on that one. And if it would be about as good as the RX 6700 XT I think it would still be a relatively good deal. Not amazing but relatively good

Signs of life, I hope Intel Product will continue on this endeavor, they can't do AI without it and there is no way to learn these lessons without going the long game.

 

[Gururu]

I believe this is an extremely smart approach by Intel. The top 5 cards used by Steam users are: RTX3060, 4060 (laptop & PC), 1650 and the 3060 Ti, composing nearly 20% of all. In the top 10 only the 4060 Ti beats out the others. This tells me that few users saw anything compelling about higher end cards above $400.
If the BM cards can outperform the top 5 and close gap to the 4060 Ti, for less than $250, that might compel upgrades. It's a fantastic business approach if you can't burn resources competing for the high end.

 

[MGMorden]

7600 is trash tier card, so hardly impressive at all. Needs to be trading blows with 7700XT.

Last time I checked - the 7700xt is a $400 video card.

Yes, but Intel is the underdog in this arena. If it's matching a 7600 at equal cost then it makes more sense to just go with the 7600, particularly with the 7600 having a TDP of about 25 watts lower.

If they want to incentivize people to purchase, they need to offer something over the competition not match it. Peformance or efficiency needs to be higher or price needs to be lower.

 

[Krotow]

If Intel GPU definitely reached RTX4060 benchmarks then it is just WOW! Finally there will be office workstation GPU suitable also for gaming. We are finally returning back to nineties when almost every office machine was capable to run most of games at least in average performance.

 

[SSGBryan]

Yes, but Intel is the underdog in this arena. If it's matching a 7600 at equal cost then it makes more sense to just go with the 7600, particularly with the 7600 having a TDP of about 25 watts lower.

If they want to incentivize people to purchase, they need to offer something over the competition not match it. Peformance or efficiency needs to be higher or price needs to be lower.

The 7600 is an 8gb card at $249.

The 7600xt has 16gb but is over $300.

And realistically, nobody cares about power draw.

To continue with this, from what we have heard, the B580 is looking to be from 5% to 15% better in gaming performance than the a770. That makes it a solid 1440p/High card.

That puts it in 7600xt/RTX 4060 performance, but anywhere from $50 - $75 less.

Same performance for less money is a win in my book.

 

[adamboy64]

This looks like a tempting upgrade.
What are Intel like on the drivers side of things? Are they pretty good with keeping them updated for new game releases?

 

[KyaraM]

This looks like a tempting upgrade.
What are Intel like on the drivers side of things? Are they pretty good with keeping them updated for new game releases?

They broke their backs improving drivers the past couple years from what I have seen. Last update is from December 5th, around the same time Nvidia uploaded their latest driver I think. Should be alright.

 

[QyInvoLing]

It's sad that b580 is 300$ in my region, while 4060 is only 280$.

 

[cyrusfox]

It's sad that b580 is 300$ in my region, while 4060 is only 280$.

Early adopter tax, will float to MSRP eventually. Just need supply to level out (Still not even technically released!).

 

[SethNW]

As usual Intel is too late once more. Since this will shortly be competing with 5060 and 8600XT. So they will get short time on the market while they are competitive and maybe not selling at a loss. But the fact they cancelled laptop skews tells me they don't have confidence and will likely still be selling it at a loss. I mean if you look at due size, that is too big for so low price, but they need it to brute force performance. Also prices might look fine, but that is only if you ignore discounts and compare MSRP. Not to mention that their slides still compare it to 3060, plus they need to rely on other cards running out of VRAM to show wins. I got feeling Intel us releasing this only to fulfill promise to shareholders, otherwise it would have been cancelled. And likely will try to supply minimum to not get bankrupt as they sell at a loss.

And oh, OpenCL, that is definitely top trending game on Steam right now, people clocking in 100s of hours and can't put it down... Oh, wait, it is benchmark, one of those that basically has little to no relation to how well game runs because it isn't a game. Sorry if I get bit cynical with benchmarks and big claims, but they are useless for predicting game performance which is what 90%+ will be buying graphic card for.