The Intel Arc Battlemage launch is mere days away, as Intel’s new vary of graphics playing cards appears to sneak out earlier than the vacation season. Forward of that official unveiling, although, some new Intel GPU take a look at outcomes have made their means on-line, revealing some features of the anticipated efficiency of the Intel Arc B580.
The brand new Intel GPUs aren’t anticipated to battle for high locations in our greatest graphics card information, however with aggressive Battlemage costs the corporate’s new choices might actually shake up the graphics card market forward of AMD and Nvidia’s new card launches early subsequent yr. Furthermore, there’s potential for them to make for excellent vacation season upgrades for avid gamers on a price range, if gaming efficiency proves to be as promising as this new leak.
The info in query comes from a perennial benchmark leak supply, Geekbench. As a result of this extensively fashionable benchmark can add its outcomes to the benchmark’s on-line database, it commonly finally ends up being one of many first sources of leaked benchmarks, as testers with early entry to {hardware} by accident, or presumably deliberately, add their outcomes after performing a take a look at run.
That’s seemingly the case on this event, as a Geekbench take a look at run has appeared on the positioning clearly exhibiting a GPU detected by the software program because the Intel Arc B580, with the itemizing additionally exhibiting the 12GB of VRAM listed within the B580 specs, and exhibiting that it’s detected as having 160 compute items, which Intel calls vector engines.
As for the efficiency proven on this Geekbench leak, the assessments measured the OpenCL and Vulkan efficiency of the GPU. These give us a straight comparable end result to different GPUs on this take a look at, though not essentially its closing gaming efficiency.
Beginning with the OpenCL take a look at, this isn’t a gaming efficiency take a look at, however slightly a take a look at of the GPU’s computing energy, geared toward indicating the efficiency of the GPU when used for a wider vary of number-crunching duties than gaming. Regardless, we will see that with a rating of 98,343 the B580 outpaces Intel’s earlier card of this class, the A580, by an element of 9%, with that card scoring 89,928 in the identical take a look at.
That’s a barely underwhelming end result, nevertheless it’s one that might enhance with additional driver updates for the newer card. What’s extra, of the 2 assessments, that is the least associated to gaming efficiency. As a substitute, the Vulkan take a look at is a greater one, as Vulkan is used as a gaming API. On this take a look at, the B580 scores 103,445 factors, which compares to 79,341 for the A580, which is a 30% enhance.
As for the way these numbers examine to competing merchandise from AMD and Nvidia, they place the B580 forward of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT within the Vulkan take a look at, although the RTX 4060 outpaces the B580 within the OpenCL take a look at. That tallies with earlier leaks concerning the specs and potential anticipated efficiency of the GPU.
What’s extra, when matched with the anticipated worth of this card, this card might be a really affordable price range choice. Provided that the 8GB RX 7600 has an MSRP of $269 and the RXT 4060 has an MSRP of $299, the $249 MSRP of the B580 may be very aggressive certainly, if that gaming efficiency seems to match its Vulkan Geekbench exhibiting. We’ll know the scenario for positive in just some days, so be careful for evaluations of the playing cards once they drop in on December 13.
Within the meantime, take a look at what we’re anticipating to see in reply from AMD and Nvidia at CES 2025 in January. The RTX 5090 is predicted to steer the cost for Nvidia, whereas the RX 8800 XT is predicted to be AMD’s top-tier gaming GPU for subsequent yr.
