The Arc B580 Battlemage GPU is dominating the sub-$300 GPUs convincingly. However, synthetic benchmarks may not necessarily translate to gaming equally. Still, the Arc B580 looks to have the potential to dethrone AMD and NVIDIA budget GPUs.
Intel Arc B580 crosses 14,000 points in Time Spy Graphics, almost a 30% uplift over the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600
It has been a week since Intel announced its newest Battlemage Arc B580 GPU. For a $249 price tag, Intel promised a 10% average higher performance compared to the RTX 4060, which also means better raster performance over the Radeon RX 7600. Since there is an embargo on the GPU reviews, we will have to wait two more days before we can see full-fledged reviews.
Thankfully, one good synthetic benchmark is out, which sheds light on what you can expect from Intel’s budget offering. A user ‘GPX-John‘ on the Chiphell forum posted the performance stats of Arc B580. The GPU scored a good 14719 points, making it roughly 30% faster than the RTX 4060 score of 11218 points. Currently, the RTX 4060 can score anywhere between 11000 to 11500 points and as Intel GPUs are known to be much better at Time Spy than NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, the performance gap is hence, higher.
Similarly, the Arc B580 is 33% faster than the Radeon RX 7600, which scores around 11000 points. This seems even better than what Intel showed in its launch slides but those were the actual gaming numbers, which depend on various factors and isn’t just about the raw power the GPUs can bring to the table. To confirm whether the Arc B580 is really faster than the RTX 4060, we can compare it against the previous-gen Arc A770 GPU, which shows the B580 to be around 12% faster and around 19% faster than the Arc A750.
This really puts the B580 in a very competitive yet appealing position since both RX 7600 and RTX 4060 cost between $250-$300. However, as the B580 brings 12 GB memory, the RX 7600 and RTX 4060 have no chance against it in titles that need over 8 GB of VRAM. We have already seen that there are several such titles, which simply don’t like 8 GB VRAM and as we currently don’t have any 12 GB card for $249, this is Intel’s one of the best offerings yet.
Let’s wait for two more days to see how it performs at 1080p as well as 1440p resolution and whether it gets pulled by bugs or driver issues.
