S liding in just below the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060's typical price -- $280 versus $249 -- and a little above its typical performance, Intel's Arc B580 graphics card makes a nice i

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.

Intel's Battlemage graphics card generation in the first test: The Arc B580 not only has to prove its performance, but also its efficiency.

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・Fast frame rates at high visual quality settings ・12GB memory and bandwidth for 1440p gaming ・Low, low $249 price ・Superb ray tracing for price class (beats RTX 4060) ・Bugs and performance oddities from 1st-gen Arc GPUs have been fixed ・Uses standard 8-pin power connector ・XeSS in over 150 games ・Well-designed,

Intel's first Battlemage GPU, the Arc B580, will be here before Xmas and it'll be 10% faster and $50 cheaper than the GeForce RTX 4060.

Intel just kicked off the next generation of graphics cards with the Arc B580, and it's one heck of an introduction.