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.
I can't wait for the release in 2044! I hope 1440p is still all the rage when it launches!
Serious note: I hope Intel stays in the dgpu market, we could use another player in the space.
Yeah, very glad that Intel has stayed in the market.
It's very refreshing to see a company release a reasonable, though that term has been skewed so much over the years, budget cpu that doesn't completely suck and actually tries to run current green games.
I haven't been a huge fan of Intel for their cpus for some time now, but I agree, there needs to be more gpu competition out there. I've been wanting to try out an Arc for a while, I'm just hoping the dgpu drivers are better than what they run for their integrated chips.
It's official, the Intel Arc B580 GPU is launching on December 12, 2044
So excited. Can't wait.
If this turns out to be a solid performer, the price could make it the best midrange value since AMD's Polaris (RX 480). Let's hope Intel's build quality has improved since the A770.
I can't wait for these to be EOLed due to the exec shakeup.
Isn't this the same architecture that is also in their iGPUs? That should help keep them motivated to improve drivers even if they lose interest in dGPUs.
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
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.
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.
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.
If it can ship before tariffs become an issue, maybe.
Do these cards have good open-source Linux drivers?
The comments I've read from current-generation Arc owners have given the impression that their Linux drivers are catching up to AMD. Here's the latest info:
As an aside knowing most companies working in embedded technologies usually work in, or have strong aspects in Linux. Why then are Linux drivers so difficult to come by? Lack of customers seems unlikely since they mostly have everything ready, right? Or is it cost cutting to avoid lengthy QA on another platform? That would be easy to sidestep by giving a no-warranty driver version?
Most of the demand is for Windows. So if your choice is to spend resources (money) where demand is, or hope that you can possibly create demand where there isn't any currently.
They keep getting removed from the kernel.
Been a while but I played around with the a770 in Arch for a few months. It didn't play nice with proton and even native games were hit and miss. Better support from Intel than nvidia gives, but it's a new platform and Linux development was definitely taking a back seat to the windows drivers which were also a buggy mess.
And basically nobody had the cards so if something didn't work your options were to give up or become a computer graphics programming wizard and fix it all yourself from scratch.
To answer the question: not really, no. The drivers themselves may have been fine, but who knows how any given software will handle a brand new GPU architecture.
Hopefully it will bring some decent generational improvements. The only thing i'm not a huge fan of is the 45% price increase over lasts gen, which isn't even putting used or discounted cards into consideration
Original MSRP of the A770 was $330 so that is a big improvement. I assume intel is sticking with a reasonable launch MSRP to set expectations right.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-a750-a770-full-pricing-revealed
I game at 1440p on a 1080ti. So what this tells me is that I don't need to upgrade. Cool.
What do you play and on what settings? I know the 1080ti was a beast but it must surely be showing its age.
I mostly play BG3 now but I was hard into Destiny 2. As long as I capped my FPS to match my monitor (so 120), I could crank it up to pretty much max. BG3 and Last Epoch I max out (still fps capped). Cyberpunk 2077 I didn't bother with and play it on GeForce Now. Most other games I play are AA or indie and the 1080ti at 1440p handles them easily.
Space Marine II is another that's going on GeForce Now just because I want it on Ultra everything. So literally 95%+ of my library runs maxed at 1440p/120 on a 1080ti.
Sick. I got an a770le when they launched. Buggy AF, but not bad performance when it decided to work. It currently lives as a dedicated av1 encoder in a Plex server
I just bought an a750 honestly I'm loving it. So far I've only had issues in Skyrim with the shadows, and vermintide 2.
This looks insanely good.
How these go Linux? Vroom or doom?
I believe vroom, intel usually has good Linux support even having their own optimized distribution
Edit: it may have trouble with older titles
I love playing older titles...
