The company is targeting 1440p gaming and entry-level ray tracing performance with its Arc B580 and Arc B570 GPUs.

Intel’s next — and possibly last — desktop graphics cards will begin arriving in just 10 days. Right on cue, the company has announced the budget $249 Arc B580 and $219 Arc B570, shipping December 13th and January 16th, respectively, as the “best-in-class performance per dollar” options in the GPU market.

The first MSI Claw handheld gaming PC wasn’t very well received when it launched earlier this year as the first (and only) model in the space to feature an Intel Meteor Lake processor and Intel Arc integrated graphics.

Targeting the budget gaming segment, the new flagship Intel Arc B580 GPU features 20 Xe-cores, 20 ray tracing units, 160 XMX AI Engines and 12GB GDDR6 memory with a 192-bit memory interface, specs that could make it a very competitive 1440p graphics card.

Intel's second generation discrete Arc GPUs based on Battlemage are due to arrive in a couple of weeks and we've got the full scoop.

Intel's new Battlemage generation graphics cards look impressive for the budget-to-midrange category and are coming soon, but intense competition likely isn't far behind.

After months of rumors and leaks, Intel made it official today: The next generation of its gaming GPUs is here. The chipmaker announced the Intel Arc B580 and B570 graphics chips (codenamed Battlemage) for $249 and $219,

Intel’s Arc Battlemage lineup includes the B580 and B570 with up to 12 GB of memory for budget-conscious gamers.