Intel Arc B580 GPU Review

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Understandably this is an issue for us more than you. It’s really difficult to have this box on our desk and not assume its a new processor. The various Core processors of recent times have arrived in similar packaging. Thankfully we know what is in here.

When you’re aiming both at 1440P gamers, but also at the $250 price bracket, something has to give. We will always take flash and flair as a sacrificial lamb if it means more in-game performance for the money.

Much like the front side, the rear is utilitarian at best. It does make us chuckle that the brilliant airflow port on the back of cards that appeared and then, for reasons we don’t understand, began to get faded out, is in place here. Intel obviously looked at current designs and saw how helpful this vent is. They see what some Nvidia and AMD vendors don’t. We’re on Intel’s side.

Anything that stops your graphics card forming a heat-retaining wall halfway up your case is a positive. All that cool air drawn in just ends up getting blocked by the length of the GPU. Not so here. It’s empirically better than not having it.

There’s not a lot to say because the design of the B580 is so simple. If you’re at the lower end of the market, or just gaming on a budget, you’ll appreciate the single 8 pin PCIe power input. Even the most affordable power supplies will have you covered.

HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1 are in full effect. The bordered DisplayPort supports UHBR 13.5, should you have a monitor that was surprisingly expensive given the cost of this card.