Intel Arc B580 Review + Benchmarks: Great Performance + 12GB VRAM For $250!
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Summary
Intel’s first dedicated GPU for the enthusiast market, the Arc B580, is placed against the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 GPUs and comes out better on paper in rich texture and rasterisation performance.
priced at 330,itbeatsthe330 RTX 4060 in several synthetic benchmarks and modern games like Cyberpunk 2077, despite the 4060’s ray-tracing advantages.
it hasn’t got the muscular AI capabilities of Nvidia’s cards, which could impact its performance in games going forward, but its DX12 GPU-accelerated encoding performance is far superior to both Nvidia and AMD offerings.
Intel has also enabled better multi-card support for the B580 than Nvidia offers with SLI, though it doesn’t quite match AMD’s superb州mer with Radeon RX cards
the biggest challenge for Intel in this space will be delivering cards to the market at all, following widespread stock issues in its first generation of GPUs.