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

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.

Intel has been exploring the GPU market for a few years, and with its latest offering, the Battlemage Intel Arc B580, the company appears ready to go all in. This new GPU marks a significant evolution in Intel’s strategy,

Intel has announced its next-generation Arc B-series desktop graphics cards, based on its new Xe2 architecture dubbed "Battlemage". Two new graphics cards, the Intel Arc B570 and B580, have been announced for gamers running displays at 1440p resolution, starting at an attractive $219 USD.

Intel has officially confirmed that there’s a big Arc GPU announcement tomorrow, on December 3, which surely must be Battlemage, as rumors have already suggested – and we’ve caught some leaked specs for the purported Arc B570 graphics card, too.

Spec sheets for the ASRock Intel Arc B570 Challenger 10GB OC and ASRock Intel Arc B580 Steel Legend 12GB OC point to two Battlemage GPUs coming.

Intel’s $249 Arc B580 is the graphics card. That was the headline I used for our initial coverage of Intel’s second-generation discrete graphics cards, because it’s true – at least on paper. Nvidia and AMD have been nerfing the memory system of sub-$350 graphics cards since the pandemic,