Intel officially launch their ARC PRO B70 and B65 GPUs

Big Battlemage arrives with Intel’s ARC Pro B70 and B65 graphics cards

Intel has officially launched its first “Big Battlemage” graphics cards, new, higher-end Xe2 discrete GPUs that stand above Intel’s prior products. The Intel ARC Pro B70 will become available today, March 25th, with pricing starting at $949, while the ARC Pro B65 will arrive in mid-April.

Both of these new graphics cards feature 32GB of ECC GDDR6 memory and are optimised for multi-user and multi-agent workloads. These GPUs are intended to deliver strong price/performance characteristics, offering more memory and performance than their Nvidia counterparts.

The ARC PRO B70 will be available from Intel, alongside partners such as ASRock, Gunnir, MAXSUN, Sparkle, Onix, and others. The ARC Pro B65 will only be available through Intel’s partners.

Compared with the ARC Pro B60, the ARC Pro B70 features 50% more memory and 60% more Xe cores. Below, we can see that the B70 delivers up to 69% more performance than the ARC Pro B60, though performance gains vary by workload.

Intel pits its ARC PRO B70 against Nvidia’s RTX PRO 4000, promising users up to 2x tokens per dollar. Intel also claims that its extra memory provides a context window up to 2.2x larger in large context workloads. Additionally, Intel says it can deliver first-token times up to 6.2x faster in multi-user workloads.

So far, Intel has not commented on any potential gaming applications for these new graphics cards. For now, Intel’s “Big Battlemage” silicon is exclusive to the AI and creator markets. Currently, there appears to be no plan to release a gaming-oriented version of the ARC PRO B70.

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