Intel Arc B580 GPU Re-Review: Old PC vs New PC Test

Intel's Arc B580 graphics card was meant to be a massive hit among mainstream PC gamers, offering excellent value at $250. So much so that we even hailed it as the best value GPU in our day-one review published a month ago. However, as reports began to surface indicating that the graphics card's impressive performance was limited to newer CPUs, we knew it was time for a retest.

We've gathered a ton of new benchmark data for you, some of this was already explored briefly on YouTube, diving into the B580's overhead issues that cause performance to suffer in CPU-limited gaming scenarios. Our testing revealed that the Arc B580 performed significantly worse than the RTX 4060 in games like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 when paired with either a Ryzen 7 9800X3D or a Ryzen 5 2600. With the latter, average frame rates dropped to ...