Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards for Budget Gamers [Video]

Intel has announced its next-generation Arc B-series desktop graphics cards, based on its new Xe2 architecture dubbed “Battlemage”. Two new graphics cards, the Intel Arc B570 and B580, have been announced for gamers running displays at 1440p resolution, starting at an attractive $219 USD.

Both Intel B-series GPUs are primed for 1440p gaming with ray tracing and include upgraded versions of XeSS, the machine learning-based upscaling technology, and other AI features. Besides XeSS 2, the GPUs include XeSS frame generation and XeLL, a latency-reduction technology not unlike Nvidia’s Reflex.

Intel claims that the Arc B580 will be 10% faster than the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 on average while being 24% faster than the last-gen Arc A750. While …