Intel just officially announced two new Battlemage graphics cards, and entry-level PC enthusiasts are in for a treat. Not only is there a Arc B580 GPU with 12GB VRAM for $249, there's a 10GB Arc B570 for just $229. That's already a chunk cheaper than Nvidia and AMD's current budget offerings, so it's s𝐆afe to say the blue team is up for a pricing war when they arrive on December 13 and January 16.
Armed with Intel's Xe2 Battlemage GPU, the upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best graphics card contenders will use the same architecture as the company's Lunar Lake CPUs. The difference is that these cards will boast double the graphics cores and the aforementioned 10GB and 12GB memory configurations. Naturally, these new options aren't remotely designed to take on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 or even its mid-range underlings.
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The Arc 580 specifically beats the RTX 4060 in games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Returnal - two of my personal benchmark choices that I view as intensive. However, there are wins to be found even on the Nvidia side of things, but the Lovelace card really just beats Intel's newcomer where f💃rame rates are already exceptionally high. Put it this way♍, I'm not going to grumble about the Battlemage GPU only hitting 188fps in DOTA 2 versus 210fps, especially for $250.
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Where things really get exciting is when it comes to ray tracing. I normally just write off fancy lighting effects with cheaper cards, but Forza Motorsports benchmarks suggest it'll run at 64fps with "High RT" settings enabled versus 57fps on RTX 4060. Weirdly, that figure does the opposite from what you'd expect whꩵen you switch ray tracing off, with Nvidia's card hitting 86fps compared to 77fps. Hmm.
As for model options, Intel is set to release a "limited edition" stock version with a dual fan setup, while plenty of custom vendors are set to whip up their own takes. Acer, ASRock, Gunnir, Maxsun, Onix, and Sparkle are all getting inv꧂olved, so it'll be interesting to see what the custom treatment does to pricing.
I'm excited to see Intel have🦩 another go at taking on the big GPU dogs. It's safe to say the future of team blue graphics cards could hing🌄e on the success of these entry-level darlings, especially since the company's CEO Pat Geisinger just retired effectively immediately off the back of a stock price drop.
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