Intel announces Arc B580 and Arc B570, cheaper and more powerful graphics cards than the RTX 4060, with up to 12GB of VRAM and an AI processing engine, supporting AI generation and frame interpolation
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Intel announced the Arc B series (codename: Battlemage) desktop PC graphics boards ' Arc B580 ' and ' Arc B570 '. Both boards are equipped with GPU cores of the Xe2 architecture, and are advertised as being cheaper than NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 but superior in gaming performance and AI processing performance.
Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards
Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics for Desktops
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/desktop/b-series/overview.html
The Arc B580 and Arc B570 are graphics boards designed with 1440p gaming in mind. The higher-end Arc B580 has 20 GPU cores, 12GB of VRAM, and consumes 190W of power. The lower-end Arc B570 has 18 GPU cores, 10GB of VRAM, and consumes 150W of power.
The GPU core uses the Xe2 architecture 'BMG-G21', which has 70% better performance per core and 50% better performance per watt than the previous generation GPU core.
Below is a graph showing the performance difference when playing the same game on the Arc B580 and the previous generation Arc A570. The Arc B580 has an average 24% improvement in processing performance compared to the previous generation model.
The Arc B580 is also said to have an average of 10% better processing performance than the GeForce RTX 4060.
The GeForce RTX 4060 has 8GB of VRAM, while the Arc B580 has 12GB of VRAM. This allows it to perform better in games that consume a lot of memory, such as ray tracing games. For example, in ' Forza Motorsport ,' it records a 64% higher frame rate than the GeForce RTX 4060.
The Arc B580 is priced at $249 and the GeForce RTX 4060 is priced at $299. The Arc B580 is cheaper, but it performs 32% better than the GeForce RTX 4060 in games that don't involve ray tracing. It also performs 25% better than the GeForce RTX 4060 in games that do involve ray tracing.
The Arc B580 is equipped with the AI processing engine 'Xe Matrix Extensions (XMX)', and is said to outperform the GeForce RTX 4060 in processing performance for large-scale language models such as Llama 3.1 and Mistral.
It also supports 'XeSS2', which uses AI to improve image quality while reducing the load on the game. XeSS2 includes the resolution improvement function 'XeSS Super Resolution', the frame interpolation function 'XeSS Flame Generation', and the latency reduction function 'Xe Low Latency (XeLL)'.
XeSS2 has improved load reduction effects compared to the previous generation technology XeSS, and in the XeSS2-compatible game '
Additionally, the latency reduction feature XeLL can reduce latency by 45%.
Games that have already announced compatibility with XeSS2 include '
The specifications of the Arc B580 and Arc B570 are as follows. The manufacturing process is TSMC's N5.
| Model name | Arc B580 | Arc B570 |
|---|---|---|
| architecture | Xe2 | Xe2 |
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC N5 | TSMC N5 |
| Number of GPU cores | 20 | 18 |
| Render Slices | 5 | 5 |
| Number of Ray Tracing Units | 20 | 18 |
| Number of AI processing engines | 160 | 144 |
| Number of Vector Processing Engines | 160 | 144 |
| GPU Clock Frequency | 2670MHz | 2500MHz |
| GPU Processing Performance | 233TOPS(Int8) | 203TOPS(Int8) |
| Power Consumption | 190W | 150W |
| PCIe | PCI Express 4.0 x8 | PCI Express 4.0 x8 |
| VRAM | 12GB GDDR6 | 10GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface | 192bit | 160bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 456GB/s | 380GB/s |
| Memory Speed | 19Gbps | 19Gbps |
In addition to Intel's 'Arc B580 Limited Edition', the Arc B580 will be available from manufacturers such as 'Acer', 'ASRock', 'GUNNIR', 'ONIX Technology', 'MAXSUN' and 'Sparkle' on December 13, 2024, priced at $ 249 (about 37,000 yen). In addition, the Arc B570 is scheduled to be released on January 16, 2025, priced at $ 219 (about 33,000 yen).
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