Intel Arc B580 and B570: features and specifications

Intel today announced the second generation of Intel Arc B-Series Battlemage GPUs in the form of Intel Arc B580 and B570 along with new scaling technology
Intel XeSS 2 where we will find out all its official characteristics. We are talking about two mid-range video cards. We’re hoping to have the new top-end Intel Arc B770 GPU by 2025, as well as other lower-end and entry-level models.

GPU architecture in a nutshell Intel Xe2 Battle Mage suggests an improvement in your performance up to 70% regarding the Xe Alchemist architecture. In terms of performance per watt, the improvement 50%. Improved ray tracing performance up to 60%which will allow this technology to have less impact on performance levels. So it was very interesting to see the improvement in desktop graphics performance.

Key New Features and Features of Intel Arc B580 and Arc B570 GPUs

Intel begins the announcement of these GPUs by indicating rapid adoption of 1440p monitors along with a rapid drop in 1080p resolution. This already makes it clear that they designed these graphics for 2K, QHD, 1440p or whatever you want to call it. Proof of this is that they have allocated quite generous amounts of VRAM in their GPUs. With a minimum of 10 GB of video memory, since 8 GB of video memory is not enough to enjoy 1440p games at maximum quality, and even more so when ray tracing is added to the equation.

Architectural improvements are then indicated.
Intel Xe2where there was improved efficiency, distribution of work done by the graphics chip, and less saturation at the software level. Since the release of the first generation Intel Arc Alchemist, Intel has released more than 50 driver updates

and has supported over 120 new releases since day one.

At the hardware level delays have been reducedeliminated blockages and improved the performance of hardware and software and vice versa. The new Xe2 graphics architecture has been greatly improved. per core performance and efficiency. Not to mention the use of the new Ray Tracing Unit architecture to improve performance in games using this technology. The deep overhaul at the graphics chip design level is accompanied by important changes at the software level. To emphasize Intel XeSS 2. You can find out more detailed information later.

Specifications Intel Arc B570

As reported in the leaks, the Intel Arc B570 GPU comes with a graphics chip with 18 Xe2 cores. We’re talking about offering a total of 144 computing units or 144 engines XMX engines related to ray tracing. One of the most important achievements of the new Xe2 architecture is the dramatic increase in frequency. And this GPU runs on
2.50 GHz. For reference, the top-end GPU of the previous generation, the Intel Arc A770, reached a frequency of 2.40 GHz.

On the memory level, it’s quite nice to know that it comes with 10 GB video memory GDDR6 at a speed of 19 Gbit/s. Binding to the memory interface 160 bit leads to increased throughput up to 380 GB/s. All this leads to low consumption 150 WPowered by 8-pin PCIe connector. The video card uses PCI-Express 4.0 x8 interface and comes with 3 DisplayPort 2.1 with DSC and 1x HDMI 2.1.

Specifications Intel Arc B580

Intel Arc B580 is its older brother with the configuration
20Xe2 core. The result is a total of
160 computing units which reach even higher frequencies 2.67 GHz. At the memory level it’s even nicer because 12 GB video memory GDDR6 with a speed of 19 Gbps and a 192-bit interface. The result is a bandwidth 456 GB/s. The connection is maintained, the last difference being that the power consumption is slightly increased to 190 W. Both graphics cards have seen their graphics chips manufactured by TSMC. at 5 nm.

With more VRAM than the competition, this graphics card is designed for enjoying your gaming experience.
1080p +60 fpsbut his strong point is
1440p@60fps. Where its rivals will fail is in all those games that require more than 8GB of VRAM.

Intel Arc B580 and B570 performance: up to 32% faster than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

That’s right, according to tests conducted by Intel, its Arc B580 is cheaper than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD Radeon RX 7600. And all this despite the fact that 32% faster in rasterization compared to RTX 4060 and 25% faster than the RX 7600. For ray tracing, these performance differences 25% more compared to the RTX 4060, and 37% more compared to the RX 7600. These performance improvements now take the price difference into account. Let’s see what happens when we take price out of the equation.

According to Intel, on average taking for reference almost 50 gamesyour Intel Arc B580 10% faster than GeForce RTX 4060 with 1440p resolution and ultra-quality graphics. In games like Cyberpunk 2077, Intel Arc B580 43% faster than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (at 1440p resolution and ultra quality). Compared to its predecessor, the Intel Arc A750, the average increase in gaming performance is
24%. At best there will be improvement. up to 78% in Fortnite.

Here the information is expanded by taking out the chest 12 GB video memory. Well, they have an advantage over their rivals, citing the GeForce RTX 4060, which loses performance in games like Forza Motosport. This states 9.4 GB video memory

with ray tracing and 10.6 GB in Ultra quality with RT. This is what we talk about
up to 64% more productivity when running the game on Ultra with RT, seeing the RTX 4060 go to
31 FPS vs. 51 fps Intel Arc B750.

“The new Intel Arc B Series GPUs are the perfect upgrade for gamers. They deliver the best performance for the dollar and a great gaming experience at 1440p resolution thanks to XeSS 2, second-generation ray tracing engines and XMX AI engines.” Said Vivian Lien, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Client Graphics Division.

“We’re excited to have more partners than ever to give players more opportunities to find their perfect design.”

They come with the new Intel XeSS 2 scaling technology, XeSS frame generation and XeSS Low Latency.

If you’re looking for more performance from the Intel Arc B580 and B570 GPUs, Intel XeSS 2 has also been announced. Second generation of scaling technology. The new generation contains significant improvements. Starting with the expected frame generator XeSS Frame Generation
(XeSS-FG). Thus, comparing AMD and NVIDIA in terms of options. These frames are generated using XMX acceleration mechanisms by adding an intermediate frame between each rendered frame. This technology will work on both Intel Arc Alchemist and Battlemage. Besides adding XeSS Low Latency which promises to reduce delays, thereby improving quality.

In short, we now have Intel XeSS Super Resolution (XeSS-SR), XeSS Frame Generation (XeSS-FG) and Xe Low Latency (XeSS-LL). All this together creates this Intel XeSS 2 which directly competes with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3. Although at the quality level, will be more similar to NVIDIA’s solution due to the fact that it is hardware. Thanks to these technologies, Intel XeSS 2 will be able to achieve quadruple performance games compatible with all of them.

Additional applications for your AI hardware beyond games

Additionally, these graphs are ideal for AI workloads. Proof of this is the maximum performance 233 TOPs (B580) and
203 TOPs (B570).

This indicates that these charts are ideal for preparing you for the present and what comes next. Be it for professional use (code generation, creating videos or images from text, even voice recognition). For everyday useThere are very useful chatbots. The software stack is compatible with very popular platforms or repositories such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenVINO, etc.

Besides, PLAYGROUND WITH AI 2.0. Artificial Intelligence-focused software that takes advantage of your Intel Arc B-Series GPU hardware. Allows you to create content using Stable Difussion, enhance images (e.g. by adding scaling),
run a chatbot locallyor complete different LLMs. It’s all open source and optimized for the XMX engines of these GPUs.

Price and release date of Intel Arc B580 and B570

Next up will be the Intel Arc B580. December 13 at starting price from $249. Intel Arc B570 will appear a little later.
January 16and by price US$219. Quite interesting prices, trying to break into the middle class market. We’re talking $249 for a GPU that promises to be 32% faster in rasterization than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 ($299) and 25% faster in ray tracing.

Following the Arc B580, which we’ll have to wait to see
Intel Arc B570 performance. The only differences between both models are 2 less Xe cores and 10 GB of video memory versus 12 GB. The price is reduced by $30. So we could say that its performance can be practically equivalent to GeForce RTX 4060 in games, but costs $80 less.

These are the days when we will see graphics with personalized designs from both partners. As partners we will have
Acer, ASRock, GUNNIT, MAXSUN, ONIX and SPARKLE. Obviously, very significant partners in the market were left behind. We’ll have to wait and see if these partners made a mistake by maintaining their exclusivity with AMD or NVIDIA. For now, according to data provided by Intel, we could see this list of assemblers expand rapidly in 2025.