For those after a budget graphics card, it appears that the upcoming Intel Arc B570 gaming GPU might be a solid option. New leaked benchmarks have sprung up from Geekbench, showing that it’s not far off the performance of the recently launched B580.
Intel’s Battlemage GPU has quickly rocketed up some people’s shortlists, thanks to its low price. However, the B580 has routinely sold out since its launch, making it one of the best graphics cards we’ve not been able to grab yet. The Intel Arc B570, which comes in at $219, is now also showing some promise, especially with its cheap price, but only if there’s decent supply of it.
These early benchmark leaks have pegged the B570 as going against AMD’s RX 7600 XT in terms of GPU performance. On Geekbench, which compiles its tests into a single score for OpenCL compute performance, the RX 7600 XT scores 87,330, while Intel’s budget card comes in at 86,716. It’s not a gaming test, but it shows the two GPUs are roughly aligned in terms of basic horsepower.
It doesn’t beat Nvidia’s budget option, the RTX 4060 however. That GPU can still hit a maximum score of 110,000, and the worst scores start around 95,000. Of course, the main difference here is that Intel’s offering still comes in at nearly $100 less than both AMD and Nvidia’s offerings, though only $40 less than the non-XT Radeon RX 7600, which has the same GPU as the XT, but with just 8GB of VRAM.
Of course, the other factor at play here is the probably impending release of RTX 5060. Nvidia didn’t announce the card with the rest of the RTX 5000 lineup at CES 2025, and it’s not expected to launch until at least March 2025. Once loaded with DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Gen, we suspect this card will outpace the new Intel GPU by a far margin.
While Intel is apparently having a big success with its Battlemage GPUs, even if it can’t make enough of them, it’s a different story from its CPUs. The current range isn’t performing as well as it should in games, as we found in our Core Ultra 7 265K review, and Intel is still reeling from its 13th and 14th-generation chips burning themselves out.
If you’re looking to get a new CPU for gaming, check out our guide to the best gaming CPU, as well as our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, as this is our current favorite gaming chip, and it’s now back in stock.