Intel's Arc "Battlemage" B770 Expected Next Quarter, Possible Details at Computex 2025

[tommo1982]

You can order a 580 today and have it tomorrow in the EU

One can buy Asrock, Intel, Sparcle and Acer B580 in Poland. The pricrs start at £254 up to £303.

Somehow it went under my radar and it's performance is slightly better than RX7600, but the pricing is similar. Could have considered it when I was looking for a GPU.

I might be reluctant to buy Intel cards, but I am really hopefull for their success. Money limit my possibilities and AMD was the more stable choice, BUT!... I'm seeing good progress with the drivers and performance in general, so Celestial might be my next GPU.

 

[RandallFlagg]

One can buy Asrock, Intel, Sparcle and Acer B580 in Poland. The pricrs start at £254 up to £303.

Somehow it went under my radar and it's performance is slightly better than RX7600, but the pricing is similar. Could have considered it when I was looking for a GPU.

I might be reluctant to buy Intel cards, but I am really hopefull for their success. Money limit my possibilities and AMD was the more stable choice, BUT!... I'm seeing good progress with the drivers and performance in general, so Celestial might be my next GPU.

B580 is actually ~10% faster than a 7600 XT at 1440p, and comparable to a 6700 XT or 4060 Ti at 4K. It also beats all of those except 6700 XT at 1080p.

Tried to do some research on Xe2 vs Xe1, and just an offhand guess is that a theoretical B770 / 750 will probably rate around the same level as a 4070. That also means it should handily beat a 5060 Ti and the 7700 XT, roughly tie up with a 6800 / 7800 XT.

I would call those cards (4070, 5060 Ti, 7800 XT) the top of the midrange. If they can hit that mark and keep price around the $400 mark, it should good enough to put Intel into a highly competitive spot right for 90%+ of dGPU buyers.

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[stickleback123]

Intel remind me of a 6 year old when they enter new markets, if they try something and they're not immediately WINNING they have a huff, give up, and go off in a strop. I really hope they don't with desktop GPUs because consumers are getting a thick one with no lube with just NVidia and AMD in the game.

 

[GreenReaper]

You can pick up at least 4 different B580`s at overclockers which are in stock. Ranging from the Intel ARC for £289.99 to the Acer Nitro OC for £269.99. The 3 fan Sparkle Luna OC is even cheaper at £259.99.

Titan OC was even cheaper last week when I put it in my cart at £248.99 - thankfully OCUK honoured the pricing as it jumped to £269.99 at the weekend.

Not sure if that was exchange rate, stock or just the price at which they could reorder changing, but I decided not to wait around for a potential B7xx given it might be more subject to CPU limitations with my 7600.

 

[oddrobert]

A bit too late, imo. Also, is it going to be available, or is it just another paper launch like every other Intel Arc release so far?

b580 is good new alternative to used 6700xt
b770 may be something like good alternative to 6800xt/7800xt, which sounds promising, and if price will be right people will probably finally ditch duopolies.
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[Chrispy_]

We don't have any leaked specs of B770 yet, do we?

Based on A580 vs A770, maybe 3584 cores for B770? That's pure speculation on my part but something like that would probably be in the 5060Ti/7700XT ballpark, which is still a very usable GPU at the right price of, say $400. What that will actually cost in the US after the tariff madness is anyone's guess - probably an unappealing $500-600 but at least that's a US-only problem for now.

 

[Rover4444]

Meh, I hope not. Needs a 24GB variant.

Agreed. Sell it for $500 and the NVIDIA used market collapses overnight.

 

[Rightness_1]

Agreed. Sell it for $500 and the NVIDIA used market collapses overnight.

I really do not understand Intel's complete incompetence regarding these cards. We all gave them a free pass for the first ARC cards, they were pretty solid, but were slightly lacking. But this new range has been a complete cluster-F for them. (And no, I did not expect a 5080 killer from Intel before the usual Intel/NV shareholder suspects start firebombing this post and personally attacking me, as per usual...)

But what I'm saying is that the market would have been Intel's if they had, months ago, released a performant B7x0 card with at least 16GB of memory and 50% more perf than the B5x0 series, and then kept the cost down. $400 - $450 for a 24GB card with perf rivalling a 5070 would have been the making of Intel's GFX dept, and finally established them as a real contender, they would have been taken seriously by the market.

This is where I really think that NV just threatens the other two brands. I'm 99.9% positive that there is collusion at least between AMD and NV. It's amazing how the 50x0 series is terrible just when NV were about to put Radeon in it's well deserved grave, then they come out with cards barely 5-15% more performant than the previous gen, allowing AMD to "catch up" to the upper mid-tier, for the first time ever - AND NV increases the prices by deliberately not making enough and choking supply to the market, making the cards unobtanium and expensive - THEN AMD does the same!!! The promise of cheap AMD midrange cards is dead. Now AMD are talking about releasing awful 8GB cards for $400+ no better than their previous gen cards!

Then we have the DLSS4 thing, NV's biggest driver of sales right now - where AMD ALSO just miraculously managed to implement a new Transformer A.I. upscaling model into FSR - as well as "A.I." fake framegen - a model that also requires custom "A.I." silicon, which "only works on the new cards" - JUST like NV's version also does - that also takes years to design and implement, all at the same time NV launches their own transformer model version with an "improved" fake framegen that ALSO requires custom silicon... What are the chances of that!!! It's a miracle!

I predict that "miraculously" BOTH AMD & NV will also launch next-gen cards that will be dramatically faster than this awful current gen in the next 18 months, but still "letting" NV have the perf crown by a good 30%, just like always, because that is what has been agreed.

 

[Rover4444]

I really do not understand Intel's complete incompetence regarding these cards. We all gave them a free pass for the first ARC cards, they were pretty solid, but were slightly lacking. But this new range has been a complete cluster-F for them. (And no, I did not expect a 5080 killer from Intel before the usual Intel/NV shareholder suspects start firebombing this post and personally attacking me, as per usual...)

But what I'm saying is that the market would have been Intel's if they had, months ago, released a performant B7x0 card with at least 16GB of memory and 50% more perf than the B5x0 series, and then kept the cost down. $400 - $450 for a 16GB card with the perf rivalling a 5070ti would have been the making of Intel's GFX dept, and finally established them as a real contender, they would have been taken seriously by the market.

If it's just a 16GB card for $450 I'm not really interested, and there's no way they'd release a card that could rival a 5070 Ti for that cheap if it's even possible. 5070 rival with 16GB for less than $400 seems more realistic. The best thing Intel could do though is offer something none of the other manufacturers do, and that's cheap VRAM.

Nobody else makes a new >16GB card for under $1000 after all, and Intel doesn't have a professional line that they'd cannibalize like the other brands do aside from their Gaudi series, but that's datacenter. It's a really good idea in my opinion.

 

[Rightness_1]

If it's just a 16GB card for $450 I'm not really interested, and there's no way they'd release a card that could rival a 5070 Ti for that cheap if it's even possible. 5070 rival with 16GB for less than $400 seems more realistic. The best thing Intel could do though is offer something none of the other manufacturers do, and that's cheap VRAM.

Nobody else makes a new >16GB card for under $1000 after all, and Intel doesn't have a professional line that they'd cannibalize like the other brands do aside from their Gaudi series, but that's datacenter. It's a really good idea in my opinion.

I misspoke about the 5070ti, I meant to say the 5070 16GB model...

But my comment still stands in regards to the 5070 8GB, which is less than half the performance of a 5070 16GB card in many games at 1440p, and even 1080p in sone cases, And if Intel does to the rumored big version (B770???) what they did with the A770 (It was around +-25% faster than the A580) where they amped up the chip with more of everything, then they could easily hit 5070 performance for far less money.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Nobody else makes a new >16GB card for under $1000 after all, and Intel doesn't have a professional line that they'd cannibalize like the other brands do aside from their Gaudi series, but that's datacenter. It's a really good idea in my opinion.

Looks like that's what they are doing, though this may be more aimed at developers / AI than gamers.

24GB B580: