From PC World: Wellllllllll those rumors of an impending launch for Intel’s next-gen Arc “Battlemage” graphics cards in December are looking a lot more concrete now. We discussed the whispers on this week’s episode of our Full Nerd podcast, but now, a listing for an Intel B580 desktop graphics card just popped up on Amazon on Friday night.
Awkward.
Videocardz spotted the listing for the ASRock Intel ARC B580 Steel Legend 12GB OC before anyone else. Beyond the confirmation of the product existing, perhaps the most interesting part of this oopsie-daisy leak is right in the name: The Arc B580 packs 12GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 19Gbps. That means Intel is sidestepping the “Is 8GB of VRAM enough?!?!?!” controversy that enveloped last generation’s GeForce RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti, as well as AMD’s Radeon RX 7600. The Battlemage card’s 192-bit memory bus also overpowers the minuscule 128-bit bus in the RTX 4060 cards, providing hope that Intel’s GPU could possibly be used for both 1080p and 1440p gaming – unlike these Nvidia options, which are focused on 1080p gaming alone.
While Nvidia’s RTX series has moved exclusively to the new 12VHPWR power connectors, the ASRock Arc B580 Steel Legend only requires a pair of traditional 8-pin connectors. Each of those can deliver up to 150W, while motherboard PCIe slots provide up to another 75W, given the B580 a maximum potential power draw of 375W.
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