Well, that lasted long, Intel ARC Canceled...

Bigbacon said:
either way, it really does suck though... lots of promise from the two generations they pumped out.
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would say the third one did show a lot of good sign as well for an iGPU use case at least, we can see it on the panther lake, they are quite good.

That said they went quite a bit toward efficacy and not sure if they scale well at all in games, the second gen at least with B70 kept the same node and despite a 60% bigger die, 33% bigger memory bus, only do +33% in games apparently:
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-a...games-performs-close-to-but-below-rtx-5060-ti

The 128bits, 181mm 5060TI as fast than the twice as big 368mm B70 with a 256 bits memory bus (sold at nearly $1000.... price tag), pro card could be clocked moderatly, maybe some drivers issues going on... but could be why Intel cancelled it, they are just so much behind on big die
 
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Nobu said:
The B 60/70 aren't gaming gpus, they're enterprise/workstation cards.
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that a let decision that the die would not be used on gaming card it was a pivot during the long process to make and release a gpu, Nvidia card say an RTX 6000 versus 5090 performance is not that different in games.

i.e. B70 performance could give us some clue what the game performance would have been would they have release a game version using the same die. Software side, maybe the drivers are really not what they would have been for game too, but the card itself pretty much the same with ECC disabled on the consumer side but that usually a minor gaming hit, we can give them a ~15% bonus from lower clock-ecc-drivers (the driver will share a lot of code with the smaller B580.

tpu estimate are of course not that precise, but that about where they had it, the hypothetical gaming version B770:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/arc-b770.c4376

a bit slower than 5060ti-9060, the 272mm-192 bits b580 is way slower than the 9060/5060 regardless.
 
Not surprised at this. I went and ordered another Onix b580 just to have an extra.

Maybe someday it'll be a collector item.... Oooooo, new in box item!
 
DogsofJune said:
Not surprised at this. I went and ordered another Onix b580 just to have an extra.

Maybe someday it'll be a collector item.... Oooooo, new in box item!
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I just did this same thing...refurbed but it was like 150 bucks or something from newegg. Been using a 750 in my 3d model/printing PC and figure I can either put the 580 in there or save it for rainy day.
 
MavericK said:
Let's be honest, gaming isn't a concern/focus for ANY of the GPU manufacturers right now.
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Pretty much. NV essentially cancelled the 5090. 5080s are up around $2k. Prices on everything else NV are way up and AMD and Intel cards are up too & climbing.

Best I can tell the B580 is still being made but keeps selling out. Nowinstock.net says they had another drop today on Newegg. $330 for an ASRock Challenger. It was in stock for about 2 hours. Looking at the history that's become normal recently. I figure this is because 5050s are up to ~$400, ~$450 for a 5060, and ~$500 for a 9060XT 8GB. So it's kind of like early 2025. ARC sells out when NV gets out of the way. In early 2025 NV cancelled the 4060 ahead of the 5060 launch. AMD & Intel couldn't make up for all the NV product going away, so they sold out too. This time NV and AMD cards are still available, but at a much higher price. That will push people towards ARC. Not the fastest thing out there but if you need a card it's good enough to play current AAA games, so I can see why they're going in and out of stock with these prices.
 
I may sell my B570 and A770 16GB on Facebook soon if prices keep creeping up as my RX 9060 XT 16GB even replaced my RTX 3070 for only $379.99 and runs in PCIe 5 on my B650 board.
 
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