Intel Battlemage and Arc B-series GPUs: Specifications, release dates, pricing, and everything we know

[Admin]

Intel officially announced its first two budget-mainstream Battlemage GPUs, the Arc B580 and Arc B570, but they're only the first salvo. The new architecture offers performance and efficiency improvements that should give Nvidia some much-needed competition, though drivers remain a potential sticking point.

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[usertests]

The 96-bit, 9 GB guess for B380 is implausible. We know about 3 GB GDDR7 modules, but I've never heard of 3 GB GDDR6.

If it comes out, I guess 6 GB again, or 128-bit 8 GB if they want to impress.

 

[logainofhades]

Hopefully Intel can fix their driver overhead issues discovered by Hardware Canucks.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

The 96-bit, 9 GB guess for B380 is implausible. We know about 3 GB GDDR7 modules, but I've never heard of 3 GB GDDR6.

If it comes out, I guess 6 GB again, or 128-bit 8 GB if they want to impress.

Yeah, sorry... that was a placeholder I put into my spreadsheet a while back and I missed it with the update. All indications are Intel will stick with GDDR6 and I've updated the table to guess at 8GB and 128-bit, but that's a shot in the dark. I have trouble finding anything compelling about a 6GB card in 2025, and frankly I'm not even sure B380 will be a thing. Of all the potential GPUs listed, it's the least likely IMO.

 

[palladin9479]

Yeah, sorry... that was a placeholder I put into my spreadsheet a while back and I missed it with the update. All indications are Intel will stick with GDDR6 and I've updated the table to guess at 8GB and 128-bit, but that's a shot in the dark. I have trouble finding anything compelling about a 6GB card in 2025, and frankly I'm not even sure B380 will be a thing. Of all the potential GPUs listed, it's the least likely IMO.

It would likely be for OEMs similar to the old xx30 or xx40 class cards. Office and extremely light gaming.

 

[usertests]

I have trouble finding anything compelling about a 6GB card in 2025, and frankly I'm not even sure B380 will be a thing. Of all the potential GPUs listed, it's the least likely IMO.

If it continues to be cheap, low-profile, and 75W, then it has a place on the market. Basically competition to the RTX 3050 6GB. Going to 8+ GB would be the next step for that class of card, and I might buy one.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

If it continues to be cheap, low-profile, and 75W, then it has a place on the market. Basically competition to the RTX 3050 6GB. Going to 8+ GB would be the next step for that class of card, and I might buy one.

Yeah, but that's the problem: How do you do a new GPU design on TSMC N5 with 8GB and make that a $150 or less card? I'm not saying it's impossible, but it also feels very unlikely. There's a reason Nvidia didn't even bother with anything below the RTX 4060 this past generation, and AMD stopped at the RX 7600.

We'll have to wait and see if we get a true budget Arc B380 or not... and if so, how much it costs and what it offers compared to A380.

 

[Gururu]

Right now this (b580) is my first choice with a preferred $300 budget. If nVidia or AMD put something out ACTUALLY available in Jan that outruns it at 1440 by % per dollar with a limit of $400. So if something is 50% faster, I’d be willing to spend $350 but with a cap of $400 for 2x faster. Reports are also saying that Xess2 outcompetes DLSS3, so we will see how DLSS 4 and the new FSR do.https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/intel-arc-b580-review

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Right now this (b580) is my first choice with a preferred $300 budget. If nVidia or AMD put something out ACTUALLY available in Jan that outruns it at 1440 by % per dollar with a limit of $400. So if something is 50% faster, I’d be willing to spend $350 but with a cap of $400 for 2x faster. Reports are also saying that Xess2 outcompetes DLSS3, so we will see how DLSS 4 and the new FSR do.https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/intel-arc-b580-review

I don't know about XeSS 2 beating DLSS 3 for image — it's possible. But Nvidia also showed off new and improved DLSS Transformer upscaling, and it looked significantly better than the old DLSS CNN upscaling. It appears to be something you can enable via the Nvidia App in any existing DLSS 2/3 games as well. If that's correct, Nvidia just raised the bar — a lot! — for upscaling quality! We'll find out soon enough I guess.