S liding in just below the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060's typical price -- $280 versus $249 -- and a little above its typical performance, Intel's Arc B580 graphics card makes a nice i

With a $249 price tag, the Intel Arc B580 GPU challenges NVIDIA and AMD’s mid-range cards, delivering exceptional price-to-performance value.

Intel's Battlemage graphics card generation in the first test: The Arc B580 not only has to prove its performance, but also its efficiency.

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・Fast frame rates at high visual quality settings ・12GB memory and bandwidth for 1440p gaming ・Low, low $249 price ・Superb ray tracing for price class (beats RTX 4060) ・Bugs and performance oddities from 1st-gen Arc GPUs have been fixed ・Uses standard 8-pin power connector ・XeSS in over 150 games ・Well-designed,

The BMG-G21 also features a 192-bit wide memory interface for GDDR6 RAM. The Limited Edition card uses 19Gbps GDDR6 chips, which give the card an effective memory bandwidth of 456GBps. The card also has 12GB of GDDR6 available, which feels like plenty based on the tests we ran.

If you're after one of Intel's new B580 12GB Battlemage GPUs, here is where you can pick one up in the UK and USA.

Intel’s next — and possibly last — desktop graphics cards will begin arriving in just 10 days. Right on cue, the company has announced the budget $249 Arc B580 and $219 Arc B570, shipping December 13th and January 16th, respectively, as the “best-in-class performance per dollar” options in the GPU market.

The Intel Arc B580 is available December 13, starting at $249. Keep in mind that this is a starting price, and you might see third party versions of the graphics card at a higher price. Just try to avoid paying more than $300 for it.

T he review embargo lifts today for Intel's Arc B580 graphics card - the firm's second generation GPU architecture, fully supporting hardware-accelerated machine learning and ray