Intel’s Arc Pro B70 GPU is the only model to feature the chipmaker’s “Big Battlemage” BMG-G31 silicon, which is never used for its gaming lineup. The question, naturally, is just how powerful is this GPU when stacked up against the competition had it been a gaming GPU, and Chinese-based reviewer EXPreview has got the community covered with its findings.
Intel Arc Pro B70 Tested
The graphics card in question is the GUNNIR Arc Pro B70 TF 32GB card, which is a workstation GPU with two key features found in graphics cards in this class – blower-style cooler for multi-GPU setups, and loads of VRAM onboard. Compared to the highest-end desktop model, the Arc B580, the Arc Pro B70 features significantly more cores (32 vs 20 Xe2 cores), higher TDP (230W vs 190W), and of course, more VRAM than you could ask for, as far as gaming is concerned.
The reviewer’s benchmark data proved that the Arc Pro B70 is substantially more performant in synthetic workloads and games alike, with 3DMark scores averaging 46% uplift over the gaming card; simultaneously, it is also 22% faster than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in the same set of tests. Gaming tells a slightly different story, however, as the workstation card is 36% faster on average (with ray tracing titles benefiting more), though it is neck-and-neck, if not slightly slower than the GeForce card, at a -2.9% deficit.
Of course, the burning question among gamers probably falls along the lines of “why not producing a gaming version of it,” and cost is likely a major factor here. As a workstation card, this GUNNIR Arc Pro B70 costs $949 (RM3,760) apiece, and to make it competitive with NVIDIA’s offerings it’d have to slash the price more than halfway to have any chance of competing against Team Green (which costs $429). Owing to a physically larger silicon and wider memory bus, this likely was not cost-effective for Intel to spin a gaming version.
Pokdepinion: If only B770 happened.
