How powerful is the new Intel Arc B580 graphics card?

Intel recently introduced two new graphics cards from its Arc family, the Arc B580 and Arc B570. The newcomers will be priced around €300 or less in Europe, aiming to capture the lower-end market where there is currently little (good) competition. At the event, they were compared to the existing RTX 4060 and RX 7600 cards.

Intel's new Battlemage graphics cards will be able to use ray-tracing and AI-powered upscaling technology via XeSS 2 for gaming at 1080p and 1440p. Powered by new AI-powered drivers called Intel Xe Matrix Extensions (XMX), XeSS 2 supports frame generation and low latency modes, which should increase frame rates in supported games. But how does it actually perform in practice?

The enthusiasts of the A Chiphell organization tested the more powerful Arc B580 model in conjunction with the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark program. The results were quite surprising, as the card scored a total of 15,551 points. In practice, this means that it is about 12 percent faster than the popular GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (13,872) and about three percent slower than the GeForce RTX 3080 (16,134). The novelty is also slightly slower in performance compared to the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (16,454).

The Intel Arc B580 graphics card will cost you around 237 euros in the United States. This means that for a small amount of money, buyers will get a great graphics card with 12 gigabytes of GDDR6 system memory. It will be interesting to see how the new product actually performs in practice.