Early Game Testing of Intel Arc Pro B720 Workstation AI GPU Shows Comparable Performance to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Intel’s recent Big Battlemage GPU launch has now been tested in a handful of games, where it is essentially trading blows with NVIDIA’s mid-tier offering. Now, while Intel’s drivers do enable the Arc Pro B70 to play games, it should first be understood that the card, with a BMG-31 GPU paired with 32 GB of […]

See full article...

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Yeah no wonder this thing was dead in the water.

Only way it has a chance of making money for Intel, especially in this environment, is by riding the AI hype train.

 

[Stoly]

it's anyone guess how this would perform with drivers optimized for gaming.

I think intel made the right choice. At least AI can justify the pricing.

 

[igor_kavinski]

it's anyone guess how this would perform with drivers optimized for gaming.

Were it not for their self inflicted castration in consumer and server CPUs, they would've had the money to fight their competitors with dual GPU cards or bigger dies fabbed in their own fabs for maximum profitability. Imagine the clocks they could've achieved with their traditional DTCO synergy between their design teams and process engineering teams.

 

[Elf_Boy]

Sadly, price aside, the message I am getting is Intel was making good progress in improving their GPU's. With 16/24gb of vram the price would go down some.

Within the next generation or three I think they could have climbed up to the near top tier space. Maybe not the Big Green money sucking machines, but near enough.

Then again one wonders if the Green team is going to keep up with halo products, and when Red team will again. I like my 7900xtx - I can play just about anything in 4k native at an fps that works for me (more rpg less Shooter so 60-165 fps works perfectly) just as long as I dont turn on RT. I am hoping the next gen AMD GPU has significant RT improvements. I expect team Blue to have been improved too. Oh well.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Sadly, price aside, the message I am getting is Intel was making good progress in improving their GPU's. With 16/24gb of vram the price would go down some.

Within the next generation or three I think they could have climbed up to the near top tier space. Maybe not the Big Green money sucking machines, but near enough.

Then again one wonders if the Green team is going to keep up with halo products, and when Red team will again. I like my 7900xtx - I can play just about anything in 4k native at an fps that works for me (more rpg less Shooter so 60-165 fps works perfectly) just as long as I dont turn on RT. I am hoping the next gen AMD GPU has significant RT improvements. I expect team Blue to have been improved too. Oh well.

-The 9070xt performs identically to a 5070ti in "standard" RT games.

The future is now in that regard.

It's why NV has started pushing Path Tracing so hard, it's their next big software differentiator.

 

[Stoly]

Were it not for their self inflicted castration in consumer and server CPUs, they would've had the money to fight their competitors with dual GPU cards or bigger dies fabbed in their own fabs for maximum profitability. Imagine the clocks they could've achieved with their traditional DTCO synergy between their design teams and process engineering teams.

Dual GPU cards? it's not 2020 anymore multigpu is dead and buried.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Dual GPU cards? it's not 2020 anymore multigpu is dead and buried.

Except for Intel commercial cards like these. I seem to remember us running some stories on them back in the fall or last summer but there are some partner cards running 2x GPUs, but they are not gaming cards.