The Intel Arc B570 is one of the best value buys in PC gaming, but it lives in the shadow of the more powerful B580.

Intel's Arc B580 graphics cards have been its best-reviewed to date, maintaining the aggressive pricing of the old A-series Arc cards with fewer driver bugs, fewer weird performance outliers, and fewer caveats all around.

Provided you've got a fairly recent CPU, the Intel Arc B580 is a 1080p graphics card worth buying - even over the RTX 4060.

With the sibling Arc B570 scheduled to launch on January 16 at $219, many are wondering if the B580 was a one-off success. This new performance leak is limited in scope, but it suggests that Intel could have another sellout on its hands.

Intel isn't bowing out of the discrete GPU market anytime soon. With the success of the Intel Arc B580 it's going to continue to invest in gaming GPUs.

It would be so much easier to recommend the Intel Arc B570 if it was a $199 card, rather than $219. At that price, it’d be 20% cheaper and a much better deal than the B580. Instead, when it comes to a pure value perspective, it’s a wash between the two graphics cards, but you’re going to feel the difference in more demanding PC games.

Intel officially announced its first two budget-mainstream Battlemage GPUs, the Arc B580 and Arc B570, but they're only the first salvo. The new architecture offers performance and efficiency improvements that should give Nvidia some much-needed competition,

Asrock's Arc B570 with Intel's Battlemage GPU is cheaper and more economical than the larger B580. Is it still quiet and how high is the performance sacrifice?

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