Intel Arc B570 and B580 Graphics

Battlemage architecture has turned Intel Arc cards into solid mid-range alternatives to AMD and Nvidia

JARRED WALTON

B570 PRICE £175 (£205 inc VAT) from amazon.co.uk B580 PRICE £200 (£240 inc VAT) from amazon.co.uk Nvidia may have set the world of high-end graphics cards alight at CES 2025, but weeks earlier Intel had jumped its rivals by releasing two cards based on its Battlemage architecture. With much-improved drivers compared to the first round of Intel Arc GPUs, it’s now a genuine alternative to Nvidia and AMD if you have between £200 and £250 to spend. On paper, the B580 looks far less powerful than the existing A750, never mind the full-fat A770 16GB card. The B580 has “only” 20 Xe-cores, compared to 28 on the A750 and 32 on the A770; even the lowly A580 has 24 Xe-cores. The real story is that Battlemage has major architectural design…

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