Intel Arc B580 Battlemage - is Intel HIDING Something?

 

At $249 and having 12GB of VRAM, the B580 "Battlemage" ARC GPU from Intel looks promising, as does the B570. However since Intel put a heavy focus on the B580 and even showed us results vs the RTX 4060 and A750, I decided to run some tests of my own, especially in games WITHOUT Xess on, and well, there was one card that was conveniently missing from the comparison.