Intel's Arc B580 graphics cards have been its best-reviewed to date, maintaining the aggressive pricing of the old A-series Arc cards with fewer driver bugs, fewer weird performance outliers, and fewer caveats all around.

The Intel Arc B570 is the kind of graphics card I desperately want to love, but my tech-addled PC gaming heart belongs to another. But the problem is that despite some impressive specs for a card this cheap,

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Provided you've got a fairly recent CPU, the Intel Arc B580 is a 1080p graphics card worth buying - even over the RTX 4060.

It would be so much easier to recommend the Intel Arc B570 if it was a $199 card, rather than $219. At that price, it’d be 20% cheaper and a much better deal than the B580. Instead, when it comes to a pure value perspective, it’s a wash between the two graphics cards, but you’re going to feel the difference in more demanding PC games.

Intel's upcoming entry-level B570 graphics card was benchmarked in Geekbench AI featuring 90% the performance of Intel's mid-range B580.

Asrock's Arc B570 with Intel's Battlemage GPU is cheaper and more economical than the larger B580. Is it still quiet and how high is the performance sacrifice?

With the sibling Arc B570 scheduled to launch on January 16 at $219, many are wondering if the B580 was a one-off success. This new performance leak is limited in scope, but it suggests that Intel could have another sellout on its hands.

Intel officially announced its first two budget-mainstream Battlemage GPUs, the Arc B580 and Arc B570, but they're only the first salvo. The new architecture offers performance and efficiency improvements that should give Nvidia some much-needed competition,

While it provides solid 1080p performance, the Intel Arc B570 isn’t as attractive when you can spend $30 more and get the much-better B580, especially for demanding AAA games.