Intel Finally Notches A Gpu Win, Confirms Arc B580 Is Selling Out After Stellar Reviews

Intel is having an incredibly unsmooth twelvemonth — but astatine agelong last, nan company’s discrete graphics insubstantial inaugural has produced a insubstantial worthy celebrating. While we haven’t managed to reappraisal it ourselves owed to a fluke issue, nan $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has already sold retired astir everywhere, and Intel tells The Verge it’s moving to alloy caller units each week.

“Demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is precocious and galore retailers personification sold done their first inventory. We expect play inventory replenishments of nan Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition graphics insubstantial and are moving pinch partners to guarantee a dependable readiness of choices successful nan market,” Intel spokesperson Mark Anthony Ramirez tells The Verge. 

To springiness you an idea, coming are immoderate of nan headlines we’ve seen connected reviews of this card:

Mind you, successful immoderate ways nan B580 is simply a coagulated of crystal h2o successful GPU hell, arsenic its superior title — nan RTX 4060 and AMD RX 7600 — utterly grounded to impressment past year, pursuing years of GPU prices that were overmuch inflated than ostentation itself. (Linus Tech Tips called nan $300 4060 a “wet fart of a GPU” but considers nan B580 “great and affordable” now.)

While reviewers personification showed nan B580 doesn’t deed nan 4060 and 7600 successful each game, peculiarly for gamers who still play astatine 1080p resolution, it does look to propulsion up connected average, nan drivers look overmuch mature than Intel’s earlier attempts, and nan small worth and generous 12GB of video RAM make it comparatively easy to recommend.

If you tin find 1 astatine $250, that is — which you astir apt can’t, because they’ve sold retired truthful quickly. For what it’s worth, Hardware Unboxed’s Steve Walton doesn’t deliberation this is simply a alleged “paper launch” wherever a shaper ships a token number of components for bragging authorities alternatively of mass-producing a product; he said that manufacturers, retailers and distributors told him that proviso of nan insubstantial was “quite substantial.”

That said, AMD and Nvidia’s adjacent GPUs are apparently correct astir nan corner.

Newegg whitethorn restock nan $250 “Limited Edition” exemplary early adjacent month, according to its listing, and it’s still “coming soon” astatine B&H. A $279 Acer exemplary is listed arsenic coming to Newegg successful arsenic soon arsenic a less days. Some models started astatine acold higher prices: you tin still acquisition respective Gunnir variants from China astatine astir nan $400 mark.