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More news about Intel’s Arc Limited Edition series of discrete GPUs arrived today. Videocardz, which has been spotting Arc news as it drips out, received the ASRock spec sheets for the Arc B580 and B570 from leaker Gaw. Intel is expected to announce the B-series GPUs Dec. 3, but today we’re getting a preview of what we might see tomorrow.
Intel Gaming posted a message to X that read, “Happy December! It’s time to B merry. See you on December 3rd at 9am ET on youtube.com/intelgaming.”, along with a short video clip that finished with “Intel Arc,” and an invitation to visit the Intelgaming channel on YouTube on Tuesday.
Both spec sheets appear to be from ASRock and certainly look legitimate, and Videocardz said it has confirmed the leak. We’ll know for sure tomorrow, but who wants to wait a whole sleep when Arc Battlemage specs are right here?
So far, we like what we’re seeing. We’ve already seen some of the B580’s specs (courtesy of Geekbench scores), but the B570 info is new. The card is called the ASRock Intel Arc B570 Challenger 10GB OC, so we’re looking at 10GB of GDDR6 RAM on the B570 compared with 12GB on the B580. The GPU on the ASRock B570 is overclocked to 2.6GHz (this is the OC Edition) with a 19Gbps memory clock and 160-bit memory bus. It has 144 XMX engines and supports PCIe 4.0, DisplayPort 2.1, and HDMI 2.1. The ASRock card has three DisplayPorts and a single HDMI port on its two-slot bracket. The card has two Asrock 0dB cooling fans and an LED indicator light. It will have a max resolution of 7,680 by 4,320.
As you’d expect, the ASRock Intel Arc B580 Steel Legend 12GB OC has similar but better specifications, starting with the extra 2GB of GDDR6 RAM. Like the B570, it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and Open GL 4.6. It has 320 XMX engines, a 19Gbps memory clock, and a 192-bit memory bus. The B580 is overclocked to 2.8GHz. Like its sibling, the card supports PCIe 4.0 and has a single HDMI 2.1 port, along with three DisplayPort 2.1 ports.
This has a mostly white-and-metal color scheme and sports three fans. The 0dB fans and the LED at the top feature ASRock’s Polychrome SYNC lighting. This card gets a heatpipe to help wick heat away. Stay tuned for the official word.