Intel Arc B580 Battlemage GPU Specs And $259 Retail Pricing Break Cover

It's widely expected that Intel will beat AMD and NVIDIA to the punch with a new generation of graphics cards, and namely its Arc Battlemage lineup. Multiple leaks and rumors back this up, with the latest batch hinting at possible pricing for the Arc B580 via an early retail listing, as well as alleged specifications from a benchmark cameo ahead of launch. Let's dig in.

Now several days later, a supposed Arc B580 graphics card has made an appearance at Geekbench. According to the listing, the Arc B580 sports 160 compute units for what should amount to 20 Xe2 cores. It also shows 11.6GB of memory (12GB) and a maximum clock speed of 2,850MHz.

Looking at the performance, it posted an OpenCL score of 78,743. To put that into perspective, Geekbench's roundup of average OpenCL scores shows the current-generation Arc A580 reaching 89,699 ...