Відеокарта Intel Arc B580 / Intel
From today, the embargo on reviews for the standard Intel Arc B580 has been lifted, and leading reviewers have published their test results for the graphics card in games.
The site TechPowerUp reviewed the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition for $250. The Intel graphics card practically replicates the A770 design but features more curved fan blades. The card has a short printed circuit board that allows air to pass through for better cooling. Its dimensions are 280 x 115 x 45 mm, it weighs 768 g, and it occupies only two slots.
It includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports and one HDMI 2.1a. The middle DisplayPort, marked with a black outline, supports a higher video standard UHBR13.5 — 4K / 360 Hz instead of 240 Hz on the other two. The graphics card has one 8-pin connector, as well as power from PCIe, providing a maximum consumption of 225 W. Intel has set a default power limit of 190 W, which can be increased by 20% from the control panel. The Intel ARC logo is illuminated. The cooling radiator uses four heat pipes and covers the GPU, memory, and VRM circuits.
The chip fully supports H.264, H.265, VP9, and AV1 codecs, both encoding and decoding. The review notes 10-bit HEVC 4:2:2 encoding/decoding and AV1 screen content encoding, which “improves text quality in movies.”
Testing was conducted on a system with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor on an MSI X870E Carbon Wi-Fi motherboard. Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG 2x 16 GB DDR5-6200 memory, Arctic Liquid Freezer III cooling system, and Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 24H2 were used. Games were tested at the highest graphics settings, unless otherwise stated. Real game scenes were used, not built-in tests.
According to the test results, overall, the graphics card meets the claimed performance, which fluctuated at the level of NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti, 4060, 4060 Ti, AMD Radeon RX 7600, and RX 6700 XT, as well as Intel Arc A770, sometimes falling below, sometimes exceeding their performance. In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 performance was on par with RTX 4060. Meanwhile, Intel Arc B580 seems to be a leader in performance to price ratio — the review called it fantastic.
Additionally, the graphics card’s advantages include good performance in 1080p and 1440p, 12 GB of video memory, quiet operation and fan stop without load (although it does occasionally turn on), XeSS frame generation, good energy efficiency, low temperatures, support for HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1, and modern video encoding standards. Among the disadvantages are relatively high consumption at idle, poor overclocking capability, PCIe 4.0 x8, lack of support for DLSS, common in modern games.
With Full HD resolution, the Intel Arc B580 is 42% faster than the A580. Compared to NVIDIA RTX 4060, the increase in performance is 5%, AMD RX 7600 leads by almost 15%, the significantly more expensive RX 7600 XT — by 4%. RTX 4060 Ti can offer an average of +21%, RX 7700 XT — +33%) But the last two graphics cards cost almost $400.
In the reviewer’s opinion, the B580 is a great choice for 1080p — most games can be played with ultra settings, native resolution, but without RT. For 1440p, you’ll have to either sacrifice settings, use scaling, or both.
For a detailed conclusion, check out the link, where you can also see more gaming tests and comparisons. The site Wccftech was more emotional in its ratings, calling Intel Arc B580 “the new mainstream king.” More reviews and tests can be found at VideoCardz.