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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
- 14,300
- 3DMark Speed Way
- 3,250
- PassMark G3D
- 14,800
- 1080p Ultra
- 105 fps
- 1440p Ultra
- 76 fps
- 4K Ultra
- 40 fps
Features
- Upscaling
- XeSS 2
Quick answers
Is the Intel Arc B580 good in 2026?
The Intel Arc B580 earns an Inno Score of 39.8/100 (“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 3070, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
