“As with most of Intel’s recent offerings, power efficiency has been a key focus for the Intel Arc B580…” The core of this new GPU is the BMG-G21 GPU SoC, featuring an impressive 19.6 ...

The B580 marks the debut of Intel's second-generation Arc Xe2 GPUs, and it'll be joined by the $219 B570 next month. Based on their specs alone, it's easy to see why they're compelling for budget ...

Performance When Intel first showed me the Arc B580, it led with the growth that 1440p gaming monitors are having, clearly intending the B580 to punch into that resolution. Not only has Intel ...

Intel’s $249 Arc B580 is the graphics card we’ve begged for since the pandemic. That was the headline I used for our initial coverage of Intel’s second-generation discrete graphics cards ...

The Arc B580 card that we have in hand is a Limited Edition model, similar to NVIDIA's Founders Edition cards. That means it's branded "Intel", and not any of the company's board partners.

Intel positions both cards as entry-level 1440p options because they have a bit more RAM than the 8GB baseline of the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600. These 8GB cards are still generally fine ...

The Intel Arc B580 will be available starting December 13th for $250, while the Arc B570 will come a bit later, on January 16th, for $220. These GPUs are targeting mainstream, affordable price points.

No more. Today, Intel announced the $249 Arc B580 graphics card (launching December 13) and $219 Arc B570 (January 16), built using the company’s next-gen “Battlemage” GPU architecture.

TL;DR: Intel launched the Arc B580 GPU, priced at $249, with positive reception due to its performance and improvements over first-gen cards. It outperforms NVIDIA's RTX 4060 in raytracing.