Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Unboxing & Preview

[vacsati]

He's not supposed to ignore half the tech the 4090 is famed for (DLSS + FG). He's playing a game on newest engine with heavy RT and is surprised cookie that his highend GPU is "only" at 60 fps without any help. That's a lot, try that with a 4070.

That game doesnt even look good, the engine is pretty sh.t if runs only at 60 fps.
A bloatware can beat any vga, but that isnt the vgas fault.

Btw with DLSS+FG he could have much more fps..

 

[AcE]

That game doesnt even look good, the engine is pretty sh.t if runs only at 60 fps.

1) matter of taste 2) the RT looks good, technically spoken, whether you like the art style or not - and that's why it eats so much power 3) the engine is pretty good unless you go Ultra and whatnot, you easily get high FPS due to the lo-fi graphics.

 

[Cheemems]

Thing is, Intel only looks positive compared to Nvidia, but in this price class your main competition is AMD, not Nvidia.
You can tout that your raytracing is miles better, but frankly at this performance tier it's almost never worth it.
With an MSRP of 250$ it is more expensive than a 7600.
By just saying it's 10% faster than a 4060 they're effectively saying they're about matching AMD's value.
Now, let me ask again. Do you want an AMD card? Or an Intel card? Same performance, same price.
I'd pick AMD any day of the week no questions asked.

We can mill about the VRAM difference, but this is likely to be addressed when AMD (and Nvidia maybe? lol?) releases the next gen in a couple months.
Which is why I mentioned the rushing part.
It's just stupid comparing value to a card with an MSRP of almost 2 years ago of which the price no longer is relevant.

At this price it's an expensive toy which can double as your budget GPU, but it needs to offer a more compelling value.

And don't even let me get started on Intel pricing in EU compared to AMD.

If we look at many benchmarks, it seems that you could have a bias against Intel in AMD's favor. When looking up benchmarks, for a similar price, the B580 blows the RX 7600 out of the water. It is certainly not the same performance, as can be seen in this chart. (BTW isn't it weird a 7600 loses to a 6600?) Sure, AMD can address this in their 8000 series of GPUs, however, they can also screw up big time. That is why one of your claims is not very trustworthy. On average, the price for the 7600 is 250, and for the b580 270. The extra twenty dollars is worth it for so much more performance and the extra four gigs of VRAM.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

F1 24 benchmark result, is strange!