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Intel Arc B580 review: the fastest mainstream GPU - and 12GB of VRAM is the cherry on top


Digital Foundry gets to grips with Intel's new value champion, the Arc B580 graphics card.

The review embargo lifts today for Intel's Arc B580 graphics card - the firm's second generation GPU architecture, fully supporting hardware-accelerated machine learning and ray tracing. Intel reckons its driver issues are behind them, but I found that performance in my Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales benchmark (essentially the opening cutscene) was stuttering badly both with and without ray tracing. Legacy gaming was always a weak spot with the first generation Arc releases and while my old favourite, Assassin's Creed Unity, was patched back into the realms of good performance, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare always had issues, crashing on the first campaign level.

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