Intel may not be the first company you think about when it comes to discrete GPUs. However, its Arc B-series desktop card offers great value for money under $300 when the price is right.
The ONIX ODYSSEY variant of the Intel Arc B580 card is currently selling for a price of just $260 (purchase link under the specs table down below), making it a very good deal to pick up right now.
The B-series GPUs are based on the Intel Xe2 architecture and are codenamed "Battlemage". That is how Intel names them, ie, with the initials of the GPU family codename. Arc A-series was called that since it was based on the Alchemist design.
In terms of performance, the B580 is comparable to the Nvidia RTX 4060 and AMD RX 7600 XT for rasterization, and it is better than the latter at ray tracing. What makes the B580 a very compelling option these days is its 12GB VRAM buffer, and Intel has also been improving its gaming performance with driver updates steadily, in a way similar to what AMD cards are known for.
Make sure to enable ReBAR on your motherboard as Intel dGPUs rely on that for optimum performance.
The technical specifications of the ONIX ODYSSEY Arc B580 are given below:
| Specification | |
|---|---|
| GPU Architecture | Intel Xe² (BMG-G21 SoC) |
| Render Slices | 5 |
| Ray Tracing Units | 20 |
| XMX AI Engines | 160 |
| Graphics Clock | Up to 2670 MHz |
| Dedicated Memory | 12 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface | 192-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 456 GB/s |
| PCI Express | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Compute Throughput | 233 TOPS (INT8 dense) |
| Total Board Power | 190 W |
| Power Connector | 1 × 8-pin PCIe |
| Slots | 2.2 |
| Display Outputs | 3 × DisplayPort 2.1 (UHBR13.5), 1 × HDMI 2.1 |
| Media Engine | AV1, HEVC (4:2:2 10-bit), H.264, VP9, XAVC-HS |
Get the Intel ONIX ODYSSEY Arc B580 at the link below:
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ONIX ODYSSEY Arc B580 (8346-00178): $259.99 (Sold and Shipped by Newegg US)
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