Yesterday, December 3, 2024 at 3 p.m. sharp in France, Intel formalized its very first graphics cards Battlemage : THE Arc B580et Arc B570 . If you want to know everything about them, Eric has put together a long detailed presentation of the Arc B580 and B570 while waiting to be able to consult his complete test of the Arc B580 Limited Edition next week.
As is often the case in this type of launch in several stages, the media are under embargo during the initial announcement and can only communicate what the manufacturer authorizes them to say, it is the game to be able to be “in the confidence” and be able to get your hands on copies of the cards before their availability and thus publish tests on the day and not several days or even weeks later. However, it seems that one site did not bother with such a “detail” concerning the Intel Arc B580 LE: our Chinese colleagues from NewsDriver. If Intel yesterday authorized showing the card or even unboxing it, contracted media were however prohibited from publishing photos of the graphics cards once disassembled, as indicated by Andreas Schilling of the HardwareLUXX site:
Intel embargo: “Sharing information about disassembled graphics cards is not allowed.”
But there are places where no one cares…
Oops… In any case now that the information has been released and become public, we are only relaying it for those of you who would be curious to see the beauty from more angles without having to wait another week.
We discover a PCB significantly smaller than for the Arc Alchemist, just like the Battlemage GPU BMG-G21Besides. Intel seems to be progressing in the right direction to optimize its manufacturing processes and reduce costs, a necessary step to really be able to compete effectively with AMD and NVIDIA at the entry level for gamers.
By zooming in, we see that Intel is using Samsung 20 Gb/s GDDR6 on its Arc B580 LE, even though it is only 19 Gb/s on the graphics card. The VRAM should therefore have a small margin available for overclocking, it will remain to be seen if Intel will indeed facilitate things at this level in its software part.
A final photo of the base of the radiator for those of you who are fans of this type of work. As for performance, see you soon with Eric’s test of this same card! As a reminder, availability will be December 13, 2024 but it is said that the tests of official Intel models could hit the internet the day before, December 12.
