AMD, after announcing last August that it was temporarily abandoning the high-end graphics card market, will most likely take advantage of the same event as NVIDIA, CES in Las Vegas, to announce the new series of graphics cards. RX8000, a series focused on the mid-range. And what about Intel?
In recent weeks we have published a large number of news related to the second generation of the Intel graphicsa second generation with which the company wants to gain a foothold in the market, but really, not like the first generation that does not have even a 1% share.
The first model that will be launched on the market will be the Intel Arc B580a graphics card intended for the mid-range and about which we know practically everything, from the price to the date on which it will be officially presented to the specifications and performance.
Presentation and specifications of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage graphics
All the rumors that we have published so far come from leaks that have been confirmed, Amazon product listings that disappear once published and from Intel itself, a company that has not kept the development of this graph in the most absolute secret.
Regarding the release date. Estar will be next December 3. This date is not a rumor, but comes from the official account Intel Gaming on X (Twitter) as you can see below these lines. The event will be held directly through the Intel Gaming YouTube channel available from here probably at 5 pm Spanish time.
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While it is true that at no time is there any mention of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage, if we take into account that a few days ago, two of the models of ASRock They appeared leaked on Amazon and were soon removed, there is no need to put two and two together to know that this will be the first one to see the light of day.
Based on the information that appeared on Amazon, we know that the Intel Arc B580 will have 20 Xe2 coresthis is 4 cores less than the first generation Intel Arc A580. It will have 12GB GDDR6 memory4 GB more than its predecessor,
According to various sources, it is likely that Intel will take advantage of the same event to announce the Intel Arc B570a graphics card with better features than the B580. Regarding the only published benchmark, expectations are not very high, which, according to Geenbench, has a score of 78743 in OpenCLfor which this graph has not been precisely designed, so it is of little use to consider it as a reference.
Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Price and Availability
Just as the specifications have been leaked, so has the price. This will be about 250 dollars for the standard version, that is, the version without any type of modification equivalent to the Founders Edition from NVIDIA.
Being a graphics card intended for the mid-range, it is clear that Intel, once again, wants to gain market share by reducing the price as much as possible, if not selling it at a loss. To know the performance, we will have to wait, at least, until December 12, which is when the embargo date of the media that is already testing it ends.
