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Official Intel Account Teases Higher-End Arc "Battlemage" B770 GPU

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Intel's official X/Twitter account has started replying to fans asking for a more powerful GPU, teasing the long‑rumored Arc "Battlemage" B770. Over the past week, users who replied to Intel's Arc PRO announcement asking about the B770 have received brief but intriguing responses like "stay tuned," "we're just getting started," and "more to come." On the surface, these could be generic marketing lines. But with NVIDIA gearing up to launch the RTX 5060 and AMD expected to unveil the RX 9060 XT next week, the timing feels deliberate—and perhaps a sign that Intel plans its own midrange contender. Clues are already stacking up. Shipping manifests from Intel's Vietnam assembly plant—the same facility that produced limited‑run B570 and B580 cards—show a batch of BMG‑G31 GPUs en route. Tipster OneRaichu has said the Arc B770 may feature 24 to 32 Xe2 compute units, a 256‑bit memory bus, and up to 16 GB of GDDR6 memory.

Those specifications would position the B770 as a serious rival to NVIDIA's RTX 5060 and AMD's RX 9060 XT in both gaming and compute tasks. Beyond Battlemage, Intel's next‑generation Xe3 "Celestial" architecture is reportedly deep into pre‑silicon validation. Whether Intel opts to reveal the Arc B770 at Computex in late May or in a standalone livestream, the recent social media exchanges have already done their job by building excitement among enthusiasts. Community reaction has been enthusiastic. Many fans hope to see Intel hit the price target of, ideally, under $300. If Intel can deliver strong real‑world gaming performance at an attractive price and ensure wide availability, the Arc B770 could become the breakout midrange card that shifts the balance in this highly competitive segment.



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highly competitive segment
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lol no. Ngreedia and AyyMD have an effective duopoly and both their products in this segment are trash.
 
Daven said:
Not if 90% of the market only buys the Nvidia brand name regardless of the performance and regardless of the cost.
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I don't think 90% of the market are diehard brand loyalists. In fact, I think the overwhelming majority of customers aren't fanboys. There are so many factors other than loyalty that affect customer preference: price, performance in different workloads, power consumption/efficiency, confidence in the software stack including drivers, features and stability, availability. Also look at Nvidia's marketing, it's lightyears ahead of the competition. Intel (and AMD) can and should do more.
 
Intel seems to be really cooking.
B770, 24GB B580, supposedly a dual-GPU of it as well with 48GB total. Let's see if those will actually come to market as soon as possible.
 
I dunno, the b580 cards haven’t exactly been widely available and suffer the same AIB markups as every other card. At least that has been my experience when shopping.
 
Event Horizon said:
I don't think 90% of the market are diehard brand loyalists. In fact, I think the overwhelming majority of customers aren't fanboys. There are so many factors other than loyalty that affect customer preference: price, performance in different workloads, power consumption/efficiency, confidence in the software stack including drivers, features and stability, availability. Also look at Nvidia's marketing, it's lightyears ahead of the competition. Intel (and AMD) can and should do more.
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I'm arguing that the 90% is the opposite of what you say. They have no idea what they want so they just buy based on what little they know. In this case, Nvidia is all they cared to know about and that's what they continue to buy.
 
kondamin said:
fine in europe with the b580
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That’s not been my experience at all. Stock is limited (always sold out) and/or the prices are well above MSRP. I was considering getting a B580 at one point, but I gave up after a few months of unavailability. If I have to check constantly for stock, that’s a bad sign.
 
Darmok N Jalad said:
That’s not been my experience at all. Stock is limited (always sold out) and/or the prices are well above MSRP. I was considering getting a B580 at one point, but I gave up after a few months of unavailability. If I have to check constantly for stock, that’s a bad sign.
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prices look fine, could be that you wanted one to quickly, shipping still goes past south africa and not trough suez
 
kondamin said:

prices look fine, could be that you wanted one to quickly, shipping still goes past south africa and not trough suez
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Buying from outside my country from a site that is not in my native language or currency is pretty much the definition of poor availability as far as I’m concerned. It also means questionable support, difficult returns, and zero warranty. If Intel would like me to buy their product, that’s a tough way to go about it.
 
Darmok N Jalad said:
Buying from outside my country from a site that is not in my native language or currency is pretty much the definition of poor availability as far as I’m concerned. It also means questionable support, difficult returns, and zero warranty. If Intel would like me to buy their product, that’s a tough way to go about it.
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I mean duo lingo and dragon naturally speaking claim they can have you conversation fluent in like a year bro.

That said yes availability is bad, but that is industry wide we shouldnt castrate intel alone over it.
 
Solaris17 said:
I mean duo lingo and dragon naturally speaking claim they can have you conversation fluent in like a year bro.

That said yes availability is bad, but that is industry wide we shouldnt castrate intel alone over it.
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Haha, yeah, my point is that Intel isn’t really disrupting much of anything by offering a decent card at a good price when it has no more availability than competing products. If they were able to put a good supply out there and manage to hold to MSRP, then that would be big. I think they just don’t have much capacity to produce these, since the GPU is not coming out of an Intel fab. B770 probably won’t be much different, unfortunately.
 
B770 is gonna disrupt the duopoly. (Fingers crossed emoji)
 
"Many fans hope to see Intel hit the price target of, ideally, under $300." Easily it could be 10 cents with the amount of weight MSRP holds these days. Mission accomplished problem solved!? Now back to actual reality it'll probably be like $350-$400 if you can get one at launch and another $50-$100 more to actual humans not scalper bots.
 
$329 or $349 for the “founder’s edition” equivalent.

Then again I am reminded how Intel weirdly priced the B570 so close the the B580…
 
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Darmok N Jalad said:
Buying from outside my country from a site that is not in my native language or currency is pretty much the definition of poor availability as far as I’m concerned. It also means questionable support, difficult returns, and zero warranty. If Intel would like me to buy their product, that’s a tough way to go about it.
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Idealo is available for multiple nations, .de .fr .it .es .uk … it just tracks product prices by vendor per region.

I don’t know where you are at but poor availability is not an intel or Europe problem
 
Intel, show us that you can make great GPU's too! B580 is good, yes, yes, there are few caviats.

Make B770 around perf ~7900 GRE we are golden.

If so, will purchase intel as well even though I got rx 9070 xt few weeks ago.
 
Darmok N Jalad said:
I dunno, the b580 cards haven’t exactly been widely available and suffer the same AIB markups as every other card. At least that has been my experience when shopping.
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Yes, there are a lot less of them than that 5080 Ti 8GB thing, but Intel cards are the only ones that were available in HU at the time of release, and they never ran out of stock for weeks or had their prices double or quadruple by the time they arrived in the country.
 
Event Horizon said:
I don't think 90% of the market are diehard brand loyalists. In fact, I think the overwhelming majority of customers aren't fanboys. There are so many factors other than loyalty that affect customer preference: price, performance in different workloads, power consumption/efficiency, confidence in the software stack including drivers, features and stability, availability. Also look at Nvidia's marketing, it's lightyears ahead of the competition. Intel (and AMD) can and should do more.
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Come to my country, Nvidia costs more than they should here in our stores, yet try and convince 90% of people to buy AMD. Impossible task. I've sold and built so many PCs over the years, literally hundreds, it takes a ton of convincing after mentioning AMD, and about 85-90% are not convinced.
 
kondamin said:
Idealo is available for multiple nations, .de .fr .it .es .uk … it just tracks product prices by vendor per region.

I don’t know where you are at but poor availability is not an intel or Europe problem
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That’s my point that I was making above. These cards won’t disrupt the market when they aren’t any more available than the competition. People are having to buy what they can find.
 
Darmok N Jalad said:
That’s my point that I was making above. These cards won’t disrupt the market when they aren’t any more available than the competition. People are having to buy what they can find.
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I don't think B580 has gone for MSRP at any point in time in Europe.
 
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