A German retailer mistakenly shipped ASRock Challenger B570 to PC Gaming Hardware Forum Become a member on December 14th (Source: video card z); however, testing is limited due to the lack of official drivers.
Intel’s new Arc Battlemage GPU is shaking up the budget market, Curved B580 Beat Nvidia RTX 4060 The cost is lower, based on our extensive review of this card. lower specification B570 A version with 10GB VRAM and less than two Xe cores was also announced, priced at $219. The Arc B570 appears to have reached users a month before the retail embargo was lifted. one
Users managed to use Device Administrator to brute-force install the necessary drivers, ignoring checksum errors and running every .exe file they could find in the driver folder. After rebooting, the GPU is reported as an Arc B580 with 10GB VRAM and 15 Xe cores, although the card comes with 18 cores per Intel specs. Since users haven’t reported any crashes or bugs so far, there’s no point in further modifying the driver; if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Freesync reportedly works well in both full-screen and windowed modes on Windows 10. World of Warcraft Classic, deus ex 3and 4 Up and running, but no performance metrics. As for power consumption, when Mozilla Firefox is only opened in the background, the B570 consumes 10W when idle, which is a significant improvement over Alchemist. Interestingly, the once-mocked Intel Arc GPU was able to run games without official drivers before release. However, the lack of performance data leaves a lot to be desired.
The launch of the Arc B570 has reportedly been delayed until January, possibly due to supply issues. The B570 is just a merged version of the Arc B580, sitting on the same BMG-21 chip. To meet growing demand, Intel now offers weekly supplies B580’s. Usability should be improved International Consumer Electronics ShowAMD is expected to reveal budget-oriented Radeon RX 8000 Series.
If we go by the specs, the B570 is probably 10-15% slower than the B580, putting it in the range of the RX 6600 XT or Arc A770. For the price, the updated architecture does have its merits, especially when you consider upcoming technologies such as XeSS frame generation. Consider waiting for AMD’s response to Battlemage next month. However, rumor It is suggested that the budget-oriented Navi 44 (RX 8600) series may stick with the paltry 8GB VRAM configuration.