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32 GB and a near-$1,000 price tag are appealing for local AI inference.
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The rumours were right, after all. But it doesn't actually matter. Intel has finally launched the fabled Big Battlemage GPU, the one with 32 Xe cores codenamed G31. But it's not the cut-price Nvidia RTX 5070 we've been hoping for.
Instead, the new GPU has been branded the Intel Arc Pro B70, hooked up with a full 32 GB of VRAM and saddled with a $949 price tag. The "Pro" element of the branding is a dead giveaway here: This is not the Intel Arc B770 graphics card gamers have been waiting for.
Intel is aiming the Arc Pro B70 squarely at the AI market and more specifically at AI inference. The 32 GB of VRAM provides a pretty compelling proposition for running larger local models at a sub-$1,000 price point.
By way of comparison, Nvidia's RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell card runs 24 GB of VRAM but generally costs about $1,800. The RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell is actually based on a cut-down version of the GB203 GPU found in the Nvidia RTX 5080 gaming graphics card.
But the appeal of the new Intel card is the extra VRAM and the space it offers for running larger models. The Arc Pro B70's outright performance is arguably something of a sidenote.
For the record, the rest of the Arc Pro B70 spec list includes a 256-bit memory bus, which combines with the 32 GB of GDDR6 VRAM to deliver 608 GB/s of bandwidth. Along with the 32 Xe2-spec GPU cores, there are 256 XMX engines providing 367 INT8 TOPS performance. Oh, and 32 ray-tracing cores, which really confirms that this GPU was originally intended very much as a gaming chip.
While that 32 GB slab of VRAM is really what this GPU is all about, how does the 367 INT8 TOPS performance compare? Well, for what it's worth an RTX 5080 is good for 450.2 INT8 TOPS and the RTX 5070 246.9 INT8 TOPS.
Note that these figures are all for INT8 dense performance. If you think you've seen higher INT8 TOPS figures for some Nvidia GPUs, likely they were INT8 sparse ratings which are exactly double that of INT8 dense.
Anywho, along with the Intel Arc Pro B70, Intel is also launching the Intel Arc Pro B65. That's based on the existing G21 GPU as seen in both the Intel Arc B580 gaming card and the Arc Pro B60 professional card. But for the B65, it's also been stacked with 32 GB of VRAM, but the Xe core counts remains at 20 and the INT8 dense rating is 197 TOPS.
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The rumours were right, after all. But it doesn't actually matter. Intel has finally launched the fabled Big Battlemage GPU, the one with 32 Xe cores codenamed G31. But it's not the cut-price Nvidia RTX 5070 we've been hoping for.
Instead, the new GPU has been branded the Intel Arc Pro B70, hooked up with a full 32 GB of VRAM and saddled with a $949 price tag. The "Pro" element of the branding is a dead giveaway here: This is not the Intel Arc B770 graphics card gamers have been waiting for.
Intel is aiming the Arc Pro B70 squarely at the AI market and more specifically at AI inference. The 32 GB of VRAM provides a pretty compelling proposition for running larger local models at a sub-$1,000 price point.
By way of comparison, Nvidia's RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell card runs 24 GB of VRAM but generally costs about $1,800. The RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell is actually based on a cut-down version of the GB203 GPU found in the Nvidia RTX 5080 gaming graphics card.
But the appeal of the new Intel card is the extra VRAM and the space it offers for running larger models. The Arc Pro B70's outright performance is arguably something of a sidenote.
For the record, the rest of the Arc Pro B70 spec list includes a 256-bit memory bus, which combines with the 32 GB of GDDR6 VRAM to deliver 608 GB/s of bandwidth. Along with the 32 Xe2-spec GPU cores, there are 256 XMX engines providing 367 INT8 TOPS performance. Oh, and 32 ray-tracing cores, which really confirms that this GPU was originally intended very much as a gaming chip.
While that 32 GB slab of VRAM is really what this GPU is all about, how does the 367 INT8 TOPS performance compare? Well, for what it's worth an RTX 5080 is good for 450.2 INT8 TOPS and the RTX 5070 246.9 INT8 TOPS.
Note that these figures are all for INT8 dense performance. If you think you've seen higher INT8 TOPS figures for some Nvidia GPUs, likely they were INT8 sparse ratings which are exactly double that of INT8 dense.
Anywho, along with the Intel Arc Pro B70, Intel is also launching the Intel Arc Pro B65. That's based on the existing G21 GPU as seen in both the Intel Arc B580 gaming card and the Arc Pro B60 professional card. But for the B65, it's also been stacked with 32 GB of VRAM, but the Xe core counts remains at 20 and the INT8 dense rating is 197 TOPS.
Pric...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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