Intel ARC GPUs, Xe Architecture for dGPUs [2022-]

[MfA]

Which doesn't mean it's not simply the video block motion estimation with a little compute pre/post-processing, which it almost certainly is. Tegra had those too.

 

[DavidGraham]

The B580 is still way behind the 4060 in ray tracing, despite the bigger VRAM.

 

[Flappy Pannus]

DF seems have better RT results that HUB - aside from Miles Morales.

One thing that caught my attention in the HUB review is that they actually left Physx ON for Metro Exodus, which should be killing performance on anything but Nvidia. DF used maxxed out RT and just disabled Physx:



What's more concerning is the frame time blips in several games (F1, Cyberpunk, Alan Wake, Spiderman). Those are deal breakers for me, hopefully they can be sorted. It further reinforces why reviews that only focus on average/1% lows are so inadequate, HUB didn't catch those stutters because they're not measuring it. Periodic brief stutters, even for a <1 min benchmark run, will not necessarily be detectable by 1% lows.

Even at 1080p, you can see some games hitting that 8GB vram wall:

 

[DegustatoR]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868024256883507638

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868216095800229931

 

[Cyan]

found a very interesting channel called Intel ARC Testing.

It turns out the the B580 beats the A770 (the GPU I have) in every possible way with fewer cores, lower price and less power consumption.

 

[Nappe1]

My (previously mentioned) wait is over. Got more or less exact confirmation for that.

However as 3070Ti owner who has about 3 hours in a week to play satisfactory...
Everything in BMG-G21 looks good... ...for BMG-G31. Which was seen as non-R&D form in shipping manifests on 3rd of December. I am not expecting it to be released before the two giants have shown how next gen is truly defined.
After that, It's viability as end user product against competition and it's possible pricing window will define if it is released and if yes, it's classification.

 

[iroboto]

Even at 1080p, you can see some games hitting that 8GB vram wall:

Yea, I hit that VRAM wall really hard on HB2 a handful of times. It's the only thing that is keeping my 3070 from lasting several more years to 2028

 

[Krteq]

Performance under Linux

When taking the geometric mean of all the game tests that ran successfully on all of the graphics cards, the Intel Arc B580 on Linux came out to delivering 1.66x the performance of the prior generation Arc A580 graphics card. Or compared to the prior Arc A770 flagship, the Arc B580 was at 1.45x the performance. Overall though both the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 graphics cards were faster than the current Arc B580. It will be interesting to see though what more Battlemage/Xe2 graphics driver optimizations come to the open-source Linux drivers in the coming weeks.

Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

The Linux performance for the Alchemist-based Arc A580 and A770 were faster on Linux than Windows in part due to all of the OpenGL benchmarks and such, but for the new Arc B580 the better performance is on Windows 11 with Intel's latest Windows driver. It's nice that there is upstream open-source Intel graphics driver support for Battlemage on launch day, but there is still more room for better optimizing the Intel Xe2/Battlemage Linux graphics driver support. It should be interesting to re-visit this in the weeks/months ahead to see if the Intel open-source software engineers are able to close the gap for Battlemage.

Windows 11 vs. Linux Benchmarks For Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Shows Strengths & Weaknesses Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

 

[trinibwoy]

Good press for BMG. Apparently it’s selling well. Will see if that shows up in market share one day.

 

[Cyan]

High demand for Intel's Arc B580 as retailers receive weekly restocks — demand outstrips supply for the new $249 GPU champion

High demand for Intel's Arc B580 as retailers receive weekly restocks — demand outstrips supply for the new $249 GPU champion

Finally, a welcome change of pace for the beleaguered company.

www.tomshardware.com