Intel's Performance Claims

As part of its pre-launch press deck, Intel made its first-party performance claims for the Arc B580 and Arch B570 graphics cards. This is a middle-of-the-market product by Intel, and the company is going after NVIDIA's bestselling GPU from its current generation, the GeForce RTX 4060. While NVIDIA considers both the RTX 4060 and its sibling the RTX 4060 Ti as "1080p-class GPUs," Intel thinks 1440p is the new mainstream gaming resolution, and considers the B580 a 1440p-class product. In the ideal use-case, you play with this card at 1440p, taking full advantage of the XeSS 2 feature-set.


In the first set of comparisons, Intel pitted the B580 against its own previous generation performance-segment offering, the Arc A750, where it emerged about 24% faster on average. If you recall, the A750 was extensively compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 by Intel. This goes to show that Intel has stepped up performance per segment significantly, given that the B580 is intended to succeed the A580, not the A750.


In this set of comparisons, the B580 is compared with the GeForce RTX 4060, its main rival. The B580 is a $250 product, which means the alternatives in the market are the RTX 4060 around the $300-mark, and the Radeon RX 7600 or the RX 7600 XT, at a comparable price. We wish Intel gave us comparisons to the RX 7600 XT, but we'll be sure to do this in our main review.


This graph isn't a performance comparison, but illustrates the generational performance increase of each GPU sub-system of "Battlemage" against the previous-gen "Alchemist."