Intel Arc B570 Graphics Card Available from Today

[btarunr]

Intel today formally launched its second graphics card from the Arc "Battlemage" family, the Arc B570. This card is being launched at $220, or $30 cheaper than the Arc B580 from last month. With it, the company is looking to disrupt several products around the $200-mark, and probably even wage price wars below that mark. The card is designed to offer a 1080p AAA gaming experience enhanced with ray tracing, and the XeSS 2 feature set (super resolution, frame generation, and low-latency). Given that there is no RTX 3050 successor from NVIDIA, or anything from AMD around this price point, except older generation RX 6600-series products, the B570 could be poised to grab a chunk of the value-ended gaming PC market share.

The Arc B570 is based on the same 5 nm "BMG-G21" silicon that also powers the B580. It has 18 Xe cores enabled across five Render Slices, giving it 112 EU (execution units), or 2,240 unified shaders. Other key specs include 144 XMX cores for AI acceleration, 18 ray tracing units, 144 TMUs, and 60 ROPs. Perhaps the biggest differentiator between the B570 and B580 is memory, the B570 gets 10 GB of it, over a 160-bit wide GDDR6 memory bus, on which it runs 19 Gbps memory to yield 380 GB/s of memory bandwidth. With a total board power of 150 W compared to the 190 W of the B580, the B570 makes do with a single 8-pin PCIe power connector on even the factory overclocked parts. Intel has set a $220 baseline price, however, there is no reference design card, and the cheapest custom design cards start at $230, with an included factory overclock. We reviewed two such cards today, you can find them in the links below.

Read the TechPowerUp Reviews of the ASRock Arc B570 Challenger OC and the Sparkle Arc B570 Guardian OC.



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[_JP_]

To be honest, I am just waiting for Intel to let time pass a bit, let these cards enter the casual and mainstream market for those with less-than-16:9-2K@144 requirements and then say something like:
- "We created a HAL in our drivers that overcomes the zero adoption of mGPU in DX12 and now you can combine any A or B model, within the same series, to gain additional graphics processing performance with close to zero frame latency, while using our Core Ultra series of CPUs. Additionally, the GPU will transition to the IGP seamlessly allowing for <insert greenwashing pitch here> and only use the GPUs when your are using 3D demanding tasks. And one more thing, we just released the B790 with 32GB of vRAM, which is just two B580s on the same card but doesn't blow-up the power envelope of the TBP, like if we used two B780s."

...and maybe we'd have competition back.