- Intel’s upcoming Arc B570 GPU is only 12% slower than the B580 in early benchmark tests
- The Arc B580 will start at $249 while the B570 will start at $219
- Intel has taken a big step forward in its GPU and gaming focus
While new GPUs from Nvidia and AMD may have attracted attention in recent weeks with a slew of big new reveals, including Team Green’s RTX 5000 series at CES 2025, Intel is slowly becoming a dark horse in the budget GPU market – and PC gamers with tight constraints. budgets should pay attention to this.
According to an initial test result spotted in the Geekbench 6 database (originally highlighted by Wccftech), the Intel Arc B570 is only 12% slower – perfect, since it is also 12% cheaper than the Intel Arc B570. ‘Arc B580, which we noted offers stiff competition in terms of performance against its affordable rivals in our Intel Arc B580 review. This was highlighted by the B570’s score of 86,718, compared to the B580’s 98,343 in the OpenCL API benchmark.
While there are several different benchmark results for the B580 (with the same results expected for the B570 once it’s fully released), Wccftech says most are between 95,000 and 100,000 points, suggesting slower performance on its lower spec counterpart.
Considering the price of the Arc B580 ($249 / £249 / AU$439) and Arc B570 ($219 / £219 / around AU$350), PC gamers on a budget will have a competent variety of options for 1080p gaming of this generation. With Team Blue’s XeSS scaling method gradually improving, Intel could claim pole position to become the king of budget GPUs if it can compete with Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR.
Is it time to take Intel’s GPU and gaming efforts seriously?
Nvidia has always reigned supreme over the years, while Intel has focused on providing more powerful processors for PC builds and AMD has always been a plucky underdog in both markets. The tide is now turning in the budget GPU space, and it’s safe to say that Team Blue is now one to take seriously.
Aside from the upcoming Arc B580 and B570, Intel’s new Lunar Lake processors have also been shown to benefit portable gaming PCs: the MSI Claw 8 AI+ is powered by the 258V Ultra Core 7 processor, which would allow gamers to play games like Cyberpunk 2077 on higher settings using ray tracing.
There’s still a long way to go for Intel to catch up with AMD and Nvidia in terms of delivering high-end GPU hardware, but it’s already a good start – hopefully its next GPU lineup will be a big step forward in ahead in terms of performance.
