Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249
Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249
It's official, the Intel Arc B580 GPU is launching on December 12, 2044, the first desktop Battlemage card - and it's built for 1440p gaming.
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Slightly better performance than a 4060 and $50 cheaper. But the 4060 is about to be replaced with a newer model at this point, so is it actually a good deal? Questionable.
We both know, 5060 will be like $300 or even more
And come out in 2026 after Nvidia finally gives up trying to convince the market that their $600 5070 is the low end of the GPU market
Nvidia says the $2000 5090 comes out in January. They haven't even hinted at an announcement for the 5060 so it will be a very long time before it comes out.
$2k, jfc.
$2k, jfc.
They'll sell hundreds of thousands of them anyway. Neither price nor power consumption matter anymore
Fools are easily parted from their money
Number for number, sure, if it's actually available at that price.
The problem is that Intel's drivers sucked in the past, so they definitely have to prove themselves with this launch. I definitely wouldn't be buying it release day if I needed a GPU.
Might be a year before Nvidia's next 60 class card is out. They usually release from highest spec to lowest.
Given that Nvidia said to be upping the prices of their 50XX series and the current 4060 and 7600 cards only offer 8 GB of vram, which honestly is insufficient for modern games now and overpriced, yeah, I do think this will offer decent value to budget gamers.
The 20xx series was expensive, skipped the 3x/4x and went back to amd. Even though I got my 7900xtx on sale, it still was insanely expensive for a gpu...where are the $500 top gpus gone.
With its 8GB, the 4060 performs quite poorly when scaling up the resolution. There's a great video by hardware unboxed showing how limiting 8GB are, in 1440p.
I just can't imagine the extra vram making such a difference in performance that it is enough to play in 1440p, let alone on ultra. I have a 6650 XT, which is slightly slower than the targeted 4060 / 7600 and that thing struggles even in 1080p.
Check the video. It clearly shows how performance drops significantly the moment you run out of vram. It doesn't meant the performance will be perfect in 1440p, it means Intel is using that as a competition ground, something the 8GB cards fail at and maybe Intel's GPU isn't great but the 12GB will probably make a difference (and Intel is maybe being quiet at 1080p because they are likely to perform worse).
If it can ship before tariffs become an issue, maybe.