Where to buy the Intel Arc B580 — all the different models currently available

[Admin]

Intel's new Arc B580 reigns as the budget-mainstream GPU right now, with an official starting MSRP of just $249. Partner cards cost more, and the card is selling quickly, but supplies should improve in the coming days. Here's a look at all the models available and where to buy the Intel Arc B580 graphics cards.

Where to buy the Intel Arc B580 — all the different models currently available : Read more

 

[A Stoner]

I'm looking for an upgrade for a 1660, If this goes on sale I might pick one up.

 

[triplex1]

A lot of money for these specific cards, it's not worth it for anyone to go for them when there are better ones.

 

[jlake3]

I know there's pent up demand, but doesn't seem like the stock situation was great for these at launch?

I peeked at my local Microcenter's website a few times during the day, and the first time I was able to get a number for B580, they two 4070Ti Super SKUs that had more stock than all B580 options combined. Newegg has most of the models OOS with restocks not expected until January 3rd.

 

[Math Geek]

literally EVERY new release is sold out right away. i can't recall it ever not happening.

it's impossible to have 1 for every person who wants it on day 1. sit back, wait a month and they'll be in stock at msrp everywhere like has happened for every cpu/gpu release ever.

or suffer from major FOMO, pay crazy high scalper prices and have it tomorrow. your call!!

 

[systemBuilder_49]

Intel's new Arc B580 reigns as the budget-mainstream GPU right now, with an official starting MSRP of just $249. Partner cards cost more, and the card is selling quickly, but supplies should improve in the coming days. Here's a look at all the models available and where to buy the Intel Arc B580 graphics cards.

Where to buy the Intel Arc B580 — all the different models currently available : Read more

What stops intel from announcing a $249 msrp, susidizing a vendor to make 1000 loss leader cards, then shipping them to retailers at a loss? Maybe the BOM is $260 but they can still do this and it has happened before ....

 

[abufrejoval]

literally EVERY new release is sold out right away. i can't recall it ever not happening.

it's impossible to have 1 for every person who wants it on day 1. sit back, wait a month and they'll be in stock at msrp everywhere like has happened for every cpu/gpu release ever.

or suffer from major FOMO, pay crazy high scalper prices and have it tomorrow. your call!!

I was going to say that the Fruity Cult doesn't seem to have that issue: lots of stock on day 1 and they really build inventory before they announce.

But then I remembered those crazy queues and people sleeping in tents days before iPhones would sell in the olden days of physical stores...

I guess usually I don't usually buy unless I need. And at that point, price gets a bit out of focus.
Then again I do buy, when I see an unusually good price and anticipate future demand, too.

Currently the B580 falls in neither category for me.

But I wouldn't be surprised if Intel were to limit volumes, simply because they are not making enough money on these cards. I'm still astonished they are putting it out there and didn't pull the plug before. I guess the contracts with TSMC didn't offer enough leeway and it's damage control now.

At the current price ratio it may be a hot deal for consumers but it's clearly a hot potato for Intel and its investors; slightly better than RTX 4060 performance from RTX 4070 resources two years late is anything but a rosy picture and unlike some others here, I can't see it bloom blue in Spring with green and red rushes on its side.

Then again, scalpers will jump on anything that promises good value you can't get anywhere else. I wish them nothing but the worst possible losses and then might be tempted to pick up a B580 for curiosity's sake.

As a consumer I wish for little more than Intel performing miracles in performance and price. As an engineer I just believe it's just too hard for them to pull off.

 

[Math Geek]

the problem with scalping at the low end is you very quickly push the price into the next tier of cards. at $250 i'm walking out with one. at $350 there are better options for the money. it's easy to do at the top end when the sky is the limit or if there is no other option (like the new apple/samsung/google phones etc) but gpu's sit in clear pricing/performance tiers and once you hit the next performance tier, you lose any leverage you might have had for the higher price.

i remember the early iphone days as well. i'd get everyone i knew to preorder one (around $750 or so back then) and we'd pick them up on release. then i'd walk over to the apple store with a handful of unopened boxes and say "first $1500 cash gets one". then i'd pay my friends cost plus a little bit and pocket a nice profit.

few months later when stock was readily available i'd buy one for myself at msrp. great part was when at&t had the exclusive. you could then sell the used one unlocked for t-mobile for almost new price. i had a new iphone every year and made a ton of cash doing it

i understand why the scalpers do it for sure, but we at least had to physically pick it up one per person. it's to easy now with bots clearing out online stock in 15 seconds so no one gets a chance. we stood in line to get it so we could flip it for a profit. same went for the must have toy of the year, concert tickets, and so on and so on. i was in line with 1000 other people and we all had the same chance to get it if you got their early enough.

 

[shady28]

the problem with scalping at the low end is you very quickly push the price into the next tier of cards. at $250 i'm walking out with one. at $350 there are better options for the money. it's easy to do at the top end when the sky is the limit or if there is no other option (like the new apple/samsung/google phones etc) but gpu's sit in clear pricing/performance tiers and once you hit the next performance tier, you lose any leverage you might have had for the higher price.

i remember the early iphone days as well. i'd get everyone i knew to preorder one (around $750 or so back then) and we'd pick them up on release. then i'd walk over to the apple store with a handful of unopened boxes and say "first $1500 cash gets one". then i'd pay my friends cost plus a little bit and pocket a nice profit.

few months later when stock was readily available i'd buy one for myself at msrp. great part was when at&t had the exclusive. you could then sell the used one unlocked for t-mobile for almost new price. i had a new iphone every year and made a ton of cash doing it

i understand why the scalpers do it for sure, but we at least had to physically pick it up one per person. it's to easy now with bots clearing out online stock in 15 seconds so no one gets a chance. we stood in line to get it so we could flip it for a profit. same went for the must have toy of the year, concert tickets, and so on and so on. i was in line with 1000 other people and we all had the same chance to get it if you got their early enough.

Doesn't seem like a particularly 'scalpable' item. As you say, $100 markup makes it not viable for volume selling as better options start to come up around that price point ($400 is where the 4060 Ti and 7700XT start, $350 for rerurbs).

And anything less, makes it not worth the time and risk for the scalper.

 

[Math Geek]

and as i noted above, even before scalping was a major problem, no gpu release ever had one for every person who wanted one. they have always sold out. so not like this is out of the ordinary.

and like every release ever, in a couple months they will be readily available at msrp.

so just be patient and wait a little bit and you can have one too.

let the people who just have to have it now, pay too much, and just sit back and laugh as they do so....

 

[Gururu]

Its nowhere to be found for X-mas. Seems like most stores got a handful of them and sold out. With 6-10 different models by the time mid-Jan hits, I suspect they will all enjoy good sales. $250 is going to be incredibly hard to beat. Anything higher in price had better come with a commensurate increase in performance.

 

[cyrusfox]

Its nowhere to be found for X-mas. Seems like most stores got a handful of them and sold out. With 6-10 different models by the time mid-Jan hits, I suspect they will all enjoy good sales. $250 is going to be incredibly hard to beat. Anything higher in price had better come with a commensurate increase in performance.

Hard to find yes, but not impossible, best tactic against scalpers is local retailers, for instance microcenter gets stock and limits purchases to 1 per buyer(Cards reasonable priced $250 to 280 range, sparkle available at 3 locations right now). If bestbuy ever carries this card, will ensure those who want one can get one as well as enable wide release.

Its new and shiny, and will be nearly impossible to obtain before Christmas, but when B570 launches, prices will crater with that additional entry especially as B580 supply increases. The real question in my mind is whether any new tariffs from the incoming administration will create an immediate price bump across the market for any GPU.

 

[SSGBryan]

I am not expecting mine until Jan, I am on a waiting list. Really looking forward to it.

 

[Pierce2623]

I am not expecting mine until Jan, I am on a waiting list. Really looking forward to it.

Yeah I should’ve expected any decent priced GPU would be a paper launch. Intel’s margins are so low on this thing that they can’t just spam it. Less than half the people that want it will get it before Nvidia and AMD obsolete it again.

 

[SSGBryan]

Yeah I should’ve expected any decent priced GPU would be a paper launch. Intel’s margins are so low on this thing that they can’t just spam it. Less than half the people that want it will get it before Nvidia and AMD obsolete it again.

Don't think that is going to happen - neither AMD nor Nvidia want to play in this market. I don't expect either to release 12gb cards in this price range.

The Nvidia cards will be ram-starved, and I don't expect much from AMD's software stack.

The B580 will be a nice step up from my a770, and it will hold me until the b770 arrives. At $259, it is practically an impulse buy - for a 1440p high card.

 

[systemBuilder_49]

Intel's new Arc B580 reigns as the budget-mainstream GPU right now, with an official starting MSRP of just $249. Partner cards cost more, and the card is selling quickly, but supplies should improve in the coming days. Here's a look at all the models available and where to buy the Intel Arc B580 graphics cards.

Where to buy the Intel Arc B580 — all the different models currently available : Read more

It will NEVER be sold for $250 again. It has 4070 process tech (n5), 4070 GDDR6 12GB RAM, 4070 Die size (270-290mm square), 4070 power consumption. BUT the design sucks and its 33% slower. Anyway, a $550 NVidia card costs $300+ to make, and so does the B580 !!! Intel last week gave away free samples at a loss to generate hype!

 

[Pierce2623]

Don't think that is going to happen - neither AMD nor Nvidia want to play in this market. I don't expect either to release 12gb cards in this price range.

The Nvidia cards will be ram-starved, and I don't expect much from AMD's software stack.

The B580 will be a nice step up from my a770, and it will hold me until the b770 arrives. At $259, it is practically an impulse buy - for a 1440p high card.

AMD will just make their 16GB 128 bit bus model their main competitor in the 60 tier or just use the new 24Gbit chips to get a quick and easy 12GB on a 128 bit bus. I think AMD’s gaming performance in the 60 tier will be at least 10-15% higher than the b580 since the 7600xt already pretty much matches it in raster. The software stack should be better from what I’m seeing. FSR4 will be there or thereabouts and AMD has already started getting ahead in LLM and generative AI use. The stock driver package now has a package to run a few LLMs and Stable Diffusion right in AMD software with good performance just running on the shades with the XMX matrix extensions. RDNA4 will have fixed function matrix acceleration silicon and get even better performance in the less precise quantized formats gaining so much popularity.

 

[tvargek]

when will u add it to GPU comparison table?