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Intel's Arc B580 graphics cards have been its best-reviewed to date, maintaining the aggressive pricing of the old A-series Arc cards with fewer driver bugs, fewer weird performance outliers, and fewer caveats all around.

It would be so much easier to recommend the Intel Arc B570 if it was a $199 card, rather than $219. At that price, it’d be 20% cheaper and a much better deal than the B580. Instead, when it comes to a pure value perspective, it’s a wash between the two graphics cards, but you’re going to feel the difference in more demanding PC games.

Intel just released one of the you can buy — the Arc B570. As you can read in my , it delivers solid gaming performance at 1080p, and at a price we haven’t seen in years. But it faces some stiff competition from Nvidia in the form of the .

Leaning hard on the cost-effective 1440p GPU for gamers, the ARC B570 has a high bar to reach to beat out other, more established GPUs in its target demographic.

While it provides solid 1080p performance, the Intel Arc B570 isn’t as attractive when you can spend $30 more and get the much-better B580, especially for demanding AAA games.

Introduction The ASRock Intel Arc B570 Challenger 10GB OC video card is new from ASRock and based on the Intel Arc B570 (Battlemage) GPU. ASRock is a well-known manufacturer of computer hardware components,