Intel’s Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU with 32GB of VRAM will get examined in video games — Roughly twice as quick as Arc B580 on common, beats RTX 5060 Ti in some titles

It’s been virtually two years because the BMG-G31 silicon first confirmed up within the rumor mill, pointing towards a extremely succesful Battlemage GPU that would solidify Intel’s place among the many greatest graphics playing cards. While the corporate’s gaming ambitions have considerably slowed down since then, the BMG-G31 now powers the brand new Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU, which has just been tested by Expreview with a stable exhibiting in video games.

Across 5 titles at 1440p decision, the B70 was about 32.5% sooner on common than the Arc B580, however about 6.8% slower than the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. While it misplaced towards the Green Team within the different 4 video games, the B70 truly noticed 14% increased FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 (which typically favors Nvidia GPUs), netting 90 FPS towards the 5060 Ti’s 68 FPS.

Switching to ray tracing efficiency, the Arc Pro B70 expectedly seems to be quite a bit higher, pushing 1% extra frames than the RTX 5060 Ti on common, beating it in three of the 5 titles. Against the Arc B580, the workstation providing is about 40% sooner. F1 2025 sees the most important win for the B70 the place it will get 14% extra FPS in comparison with the 5060 Ti. Across all video games in each raster and RT, nonetheless, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB continues to be 2.9% forward of the B70 — that is mighty shut for a GPU not even meant for gaming.

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As a reminder, the Arc Pro B70 is Intel’s top-end Battlemage providing for the time being, whereas the Arc B580 remains its flagship gaming-focused GPU. The B70 features a whopping 32GB of (ECC) GDDR6 VRAM, so it has an inherent advantage over pretty much any gaming GPU. There’s a software disadvantage, however, with the Arc Pro B70 using Intel’s Pro driver as opposed to its gaming-focused Arc driver.

As such, in MLPerf Client, the Arc Pro B70 had a token throughput of 95.5 tokens per second, compared to just 73.7 tok/s on the RTX 5060 Ti. When it comes to TTFT (time to first token), the B70 absolutely annihilated the Nvidia GPU by being more than 4 times as fast thanks to its bigger memory pool. The Arc Pro B580, which has only 12GB of VRAM, was also about 64.52% faster here compared to the 5060 Ti.

Expreview also ran some 3DMark tests where the Arc Pro B70 was about 21% ahead of the RTX 5060 Ti, while 45% ahead of the Arc B580. Intel has specific optimizations for 3DMark that make Arc GPUs appear faster than in real-world tests.

Still, the results show that if the BMG-G31 die was repurposed into a discrete gaming GPU, it could be an excellent midrange option. It wouldn’t need nearly as much memory, which would alleviate some of the RAM shortage concerns, and with some driver optimization, it could reach RTX 5070 levels of performance.

Of course, that’ll remind many of the forever-rumored Arc B770, the successor to the Arc A770 and a flagship gaming GPU that has been in the news cycle for years with no release in sight. Recent reports have even pointed that that the Xe3P “Celestial” family will have no discrete gaming GPU, along with the next-gen Xe4 “Druid” lineup, so we’re stuck with the Arc B580 as the Blue Team’s best offering for now.

Then there’s the issue of pricing; if an Arc B770 were to come out, it will need to be positioned under $500 if it actually wants to compete with AMD and Nvidia, besting their 70-series MSRPs. As it stands, the Arc Pro B70 in this test costs $949, mostly because of the 32GB VRAM and the fact that the AI focus. For that price, you can instead get a used RTX 3090 or RX 7900 XTX easily, if gaming’s your only concern, and both of them will destroy any GPU featured here.

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