The lid has been lifted on the Intel Arc B580 and B570, the first desktop Battlemage graphics cards, and they undercut Nvidia and AMD.

Intel's first Battlemage GPU, the Arc B580, will be here before Xmas and it'll be 10% faster and $50 cheaper than the GeForce RTX 4060.

Overall, Intel is claiming that the B580 has the measure of the Nvidia RTX 4060 by 10% on average at 1440p while undercutting its $299 by $50. Intel is leaning into the memory advantage of its new cards for 1440p gaming in particular and with ray tracing enabled. After all, the RTX 4060 is a mere 8 GB card with a 128-bit memory bus.

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,

After months of rumors and leaks, Intel made it official today: The next generation of its gaming GPUs is here. The chipmaker announced the Intel Arc B580 and B570 graphics chips (codenamed Battlemage) for $249 and $219,

Intel is launching today new Arc B-Series desktop GPUs that bring support for XeSS Super Resolution, XeSS Frame Generation, and Xe Low Latency.

Powered by the new Xe2 "Battlemage" architecture and a new XeSS 2 frame generation feature, Intel's $249 Arc B580 is FINALLY bringing 1440p gaming to the masses.