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.

This puts it at just $30 / £30 (about AU$90) cheaper than the Intel Arc B580 released in December 2024. That said, it is a good deal cheaper than the competing AMD Radeon RX 7600 and Nvidia RTX 4060, both of which run at least 20% more expensive for roughly the same performance.

Intel just released one of the you can buy — the Arc B570. As you can read in my , it delivers solid gaming performance at 1080p, and at a price we haven’t seen in years. But it faces some stiff competition from Nvidia in the form of the .

Affordable graphics card with AI acceleration, XE SS, and ray tracing for smooth gaming at 1080p and 1440p resolutions.

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.

Introduction The ASRock Intel Arc B570 Challenger 10GB OC video card is new from ASRock and based on the Intel Arc B570 (Battlemage) GPU. ASRock is a well-known manufacturer of computer hardware components,

Intel's Arc B570 GPU is ready for launch, featuring Xe2 cores, 10GB VRAM, and AI-powered Frame Generation. Discover its specs, pricing, and performance.

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