• Intel’s Arc B580 GPU has been leaked by the use of a Geekbench end result
• The ranking itself is incomprehensible, however it supplies key spec main points
• B580’s core depend might be less than A580, however different specifications may steadiness that out

Intel’s Battlemage graphics playing cards are supposedly set to release in December if the rumors are proper, and we’ve were given some other nugget suggesting that – a glimpse of the purported spec of the B580.

That Arc Battlemage B580 GPU is purportedly going to be the primary of Intel’s Second-gen desktop graphics playing cards out of the door, and VideoCardz spotted that Tomasz Gawroński flagged up a Geekbench end result on X.

The benchmark end result itself is lovely meaningless – it’s a pattern B580 (in idea, we will have to upload – sprinkle seasoning liberally), and the OpenCL ranking is rarely an invaluable metric for a gaming graphics card anyway.

The key level this is the specifications proven for the B580, which is it sounds as if set to be loaded with 12GB of VRAM and a spice up clock working as much as 2.85GHz. We additionally be informed that this GPU has 160 Compute Units (CUs).

As VideoCardz issues out, this will have to imply the B580 has 20 Xe2 cores (with 8 CUs consistent with core in idea).

It’s additionally price noting that the video reminiscence spec aligns with a prior leak about an ASRock B580 graphics card, which used to be additionally proven with 12GB. And at 2.8GHz, the former clock pace used to be in the similar house as this new leak too.

Analysis: Don’t panic over the ones specifications

So how do those specifications appear to be shaping up? There’s some consternation from a few of the ones commenting on-line in regards to the drop in core depend in comparison to the prevailing Arc A580 GPU – because the A580 has 24 cores as opposed to 20 right here.

However, there’s give and absorb those specifications. If the core depend is dropped to twenty (and it will not be), the ones are nonetheless next-gen Xe2 cores taking advantage of a brand new, quicker structure. On best of that, the spice up clock is far quicker than the A580 (which is formally clocked at 1.7GHz, even supposing third-party fashions ran at 2GHz or so – however 2.8GHz is a huge jump over that).

Furthermore, you’ve were given a extra comfy loadout of VRAM right here at 12GB as opposed to 8GB (although, if the rumors are proper, reminiscence bandwidth can be a slightly tighter with the B580 as opposed to the A580).

All of this stays hypothesis, and we will have to take into accout two issues right here. Firstly, the B580 can be appreciably quicker than the A580, no matter occurs. Intel would glance silly if it used to be differently, clearly sufficient. And secondly, regardless of the place the spec comes out, Intel can nonetheless assault on the low-end of the GPU marketplace by means of pricing the B580 to undercut AMD and Nvidia’s price range choices.