Intel Launches the Powerful Intel Arc B580 Based on Xe2 Architecture for Desktop GPUs!

Intel has announced the brand-new XE2 architecture, which should compete with Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace and AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture. According to Intel’s first-party benchmarks, the product looks great and should change the GPU market, with Intel offering 10 and 12 GB of VRAM at lower prices for gamers who want to play games at 1440P resolution.

Intel claims that the 1440P resolution might overtake the 1080P resolution in terms of popularity trends and should surpass it as the fastest-growing resolution.

The Intel Arc Battlemage GPUs are based on the Xe2 architecture, and both the B570 and B580 have 5 render slices. The B570 has 18 Xe cores, and the B580 has 20 Xe cores. The performance per core has been increased, according to Intel, so despite featuring 20 Xe cores, the B580 can beat the A750 and A770 and even the 4060 with just 20 Xe cores. Meanwhile, the A770 has 32 Xe cores, and Intel has given Xe cores more L1 cache per core, which is 256 KB vs. around 160 KB of L1 cache and

The ray tracing units for the GPU architecture have been changed to improve the ray tracing performance and quality, and Intel has packed in 3 traversal pipelines and 18 box intersections, which are a 1.5x improvement vs. the prior gen, and 2 triangle intersections. 16 KB BVH cache, which is a 2X improvement, and Intel has reduced the number of the XMX AI cores that go into Xe cores, which were around 16 XMX cores in the prior generation,

But now the Xe2 features 8 XMX cores on a single Xe core, and Xe vector engines have been reduced from 16 to 8 right now. Still, Xe vector engines have gotten bigger and better when you compare this to the previous generation, and the BMG G21 Die features 18 MB of L2 cache. According to Intel, they had increased the performance per core by 70% and efficiency by 50%.

Intel claims that the performance of a game that you couldn’t play—you can play that game with 1440P ultra with Xess set in performance—and says that the performance on the title with Xess performance mode enabled is enhanced by 47% on average. You could play on ray tracing enabled with 1440P ultra resolution with XESS in performance mode, and that enhances the performance by a lot so you can still play the title with ray tracing enable

The XESS is available in 150+ games, which is a good thing, but Intel has to still get more games supported on the XESS, and Intel has added the compute dispatcher backend with DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 Interface and Vulkan Interface, and Intel says this 2nd generation of XESS with XESS for performance and frame generation for smoothness and low latency for responsiveness.

Intel has mixed both the XeSS super-resolution and frame generation here, so we got the Xe Super-resolution improving the quality of the game, meanwhile, the Xe Frame Generation improves the performance of the game by interpolating the frames for the game, and the performance improvement vs. the native without XeSS2 we got a 2.8x lead in XeSS quality and balanced 3.2x performance improvements and XeSS performance 3.4x performance and XeSS-SR ultra-performance mode with XeSS 2 we got a whopping 3.9x improvement in fps vs the native without XeSS.

The XeLL reduces the overall latency in the game, and it’s pretty useful when you say xess fg adds latency to the game. The XeLL reduces the latency by 45% when you add XeLL to the native game, which itself is a massive change, and when you add the xess + fg and low latency, you could bring the latency to match the native xess sr while still enjoying the frame generation. There is also a driver-based low latency mode that reduces the latency vs. the traditional render for the game, and the xess 2 is now supported in 8 games.

The LLM performance on the GPU is higher than the RTX 4060 in Llama 2 and Llama 3 and Mistral and Phi 3 Mini AI, and Intel has also introduced the AI Playground 2, which is a local Gen AI model for the Intel Arc GPU that can be used to create stable diffusion images, enhance and answer with a chat, and it has top models for the AI Playground, and it’s optimized for the XMX cores, and it’s easy to use and install the software, and it’s open-source software, so anyone can access the software and modify the software.

Intel has made significant improvements to the software for its GPUs, enhancing the experience over the arc control software launched with the arc GPUs it includes stuff like scaling method scaling model fps limiter for the GPU and low latency mode for the xess2 and it has GPU limit indicator with present mon metrics with fps metrics voltage limit with vf curve and memory speeds which makes it good enough when you compare to the arc control which wasn’t that good on launch but it couldn’t match the software which was given by the other manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD

and the arc GPU has overclocking headroom for enthusiasts who want to get the performance of the GPU to be higher than the normal settings like memory overclocking with vf curve and per design, overclocking limits and the new app also has overclocking controls directly in the application without the need of another software specifically for overclocking.

Intel also modified their limited edition GPU design which would be for the highest performance of the cards with increased air-flow and whisper quiet mode when you want the GPUs to be silent when you are playing lightweight games when you are comparing them to the Arc A series limited design GPU’s the B580 features the 12GB VRAM with 192-bit memory interface and the B570 features the 10GB VRAM with 160-bit memory bandwidth and the TBP for the B580 are 190W and B570 has 150w and the power connector is 1 x 8 pin power connector and it uses only 8 lanes of the PCIe 4 And Intel says that the B580 is 24% faster than the A750 GPU.

It features the best in class performance per dollar on raster performance it is 32% faster than the 4060 and 7600 and in the raytracing performance its 25% faster than the 4060 and 37% faster than 7600 according to intel and on avg 10% faster than the 4060 in intel’s selected titles so take it with a piece of salt and intel says that the 4060 has 8 GB vram which isn’t enough for the 1440P experience and intel has 12 GB of VRAM which is going to help the gamers have the best 1440P performance and in 1440P ultra + ray tracing its 64% faster than the 4060 because of the VRAM limit

Intel has got 6 manufacturers only for their GPUs including manufacturers like Acer, ASRock, Gunnir, Max Sun, Sparkle, and Onix. The Intel Arc B580 starts at $249 and starts shipping on the 13th of December, and the B570 starts at $219 and starts shipping on the 16th of January 2025.

Intel is trying to end the low VRAM, but for a higher pricing strategy with the B580 and B570, it seems that both of them feature 12 and 10 GB of VRAM, respectively, and more competition would mean better stuff for the gamers so they can get good performance without spending much money.

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