The Best Intel Arc B580 - 3 Card Review - ASRock, Sparkle, Intel

 

The release of Intel's Arc B580 graphics cards heralds two pieces of good news—first, it's the 2nd generation Xe Battlemage graphics architecture; and second, that Intel is here to stay in the PC gaming graphics hardware industry. With Battlemage, things are only heating up—Intel claims 70% generational increases in SIMD performance of its Xe cores, and a 50% increase in performance-per-watt, due in part to the switch to 5 nm EUV foundry node. This has allowed the company to debut the architecture with the Arc B580, which succeeds the mid-range A580, and not the company's flagship A770. Is it the new budget GPU to beat?