The professional graphics card Arc Pro B70, based on Intel’s Battlemage BMG-G31 architecture, has shown better performance than the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB in tests carried out by PC Games Hardware.
Even though the card is not designed for regular consumers, the results give a strong sign of Intel’s potential in the gaming GPU market.
The Arc Pro B70 comes with 32 Xe2 cores, 4,096 cores, 32 Ray Tracing units, and 256 XMX engines. It also includes 32 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, reaching a bandwidth of 608 GB/s.
Intel Arc Pro B70 Beats the Radeon RX 9060 XT
Its power usage is 230W and it supports PCIe 5.0 x16, giving it an advantage over the Arc B580, which is limited to PCIe 4.0 x8. While the card has a theoretical boost clock of 2.8 GHz, in real use it stays closer to 2.6 GHz.
According to PCGH’s results (via VideoCardz), the Arc Pro B70 delivers 36% more rasterization performance and 45% more Ray Tracing performance compared to the Arc B580.
Against the Radeon RX 9060 XT, the Arc Pro B70 performed better in most scenarios, making it a competitive alternative to AMD’s card. However, Nvidia still keeps the lead in Ray Tracing and Path Tracing performance with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti.
The report also says the Arc Pro B70 is still less power efficient than the latest GPUs from AMD and Nvidia, which remains an area Intel still needs to improve.
Since this is a professional model, availability for gamers is limited.
PCGH also speculated about a future consumer model called the Arc B770. The possible GPU could feature 16 GB of GDDR6 memory at 20 GT/s, clocks up to 3.0 GHz, and power usage of 300W. Its performance could be up to 15% better than the Pro B70 shown in these tests.
If Intel releases such a card, it could put the company in a much stronger position against its rivals in the gaming market.
