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Intel Arc B580
Intel's breakthrough: the first Arc card with no asterisks. Beating the RTX 4060 at 1440p with 12GB of VRAM and XeSS 2 frame generation for $249 reset the entire budget segment overnight.
Pros
- Unbeatable $249 price-to-performance
- 12GB of VRAM in the budget class
- XeSS 2 frame generation
- Strong media and AV1 encode engines
Cons
- Driver overhead hurts with older CPUs
- Higher idle power than rivals
- Stock sold out for months
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Arc B580
General
- Announced
- 2024
- Architecture
- Battlemage
- Process
- 5 nm
- TDP
- 190 W
- Power connector
- 1x 8-pin
Cores & Clocks
- Shading units
- 2,560
- RT cores
- 20
- Tensor / AI cores
- 160
- Boost clock
- 2,670 MHz
Memory
- VRAM
- 12 GB
- VRAM type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 192 bit
- Bandwidth
- 456 GB/s
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Time Spy
- 14,300Top 54%
- 3DMark Speed Way
- 3,250Top 66%
- PassMark G3D
- 14,800Top 76%
- 1080p Ultra
- 105 fpsTop 66%
- 1440p Ultra
- 76 fpsTop 66%
- 4K Ultra
- 40 fpsTop 64%
Features
- Upscaling
- XeSS 2
Quick answers
Is the Intel Arc B580 good in 2026?
The Intel Arc B580 earns an Inno Score of 46.4/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Intel's breakthrough: the first Arc card with no asterisks. Beating the RTX 4060 at 1440p with 12GB of VRAM and XeSS 2 frame generation for $249 reset the entire budget segment overnight.
What are the key specs of the Intel Arc B580?
VRAM: 12 GB · Boost clock: 2,670 MHz · TDP: 190 W · 3DMark Time Spy: 14,300
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Arc B580?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
