Intel Arc B570 GPU kicks off new year at just $199 — save $30 on one of the best budget GPUs around
Sparkle's Arc B570 Guardian OC dual-fan graphics card is on sale for 13%, bringing its price down to $199.99 on Amazon.
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Sparkle's Arc B570 Guardian OC dual-fan graphics card is on sale for 13%, bringing its price down to $199.99 on Amazon. The card typically retails for around $230. If you're looking for a graphics card that has better performance than the RTX 3060 8GB with more VRAM, don't sleep on this deal.
The Sparkle Guardian variant of the Arc B570 is a dual-fan, dual-slot graphics card with a grey-and-blue finish. The card boasts a form factor that should fit in almost any case on the market, measuring 242mm in length. Sparkle has equipped the card with its Torn Cooling 2.0 cooler, which boasts two 95mm AXL fans featuring double-ball bearings and a start-stop mode for silent operation at low loads.
The B570 GPU is Intel's latest mid-range discrete GPU option, featuring 18 Xe Cores, 2,304 shader cores, 144 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 144 XMX cores, 18 RT cores, and 18MB of L2 cache. The GPU is equipped with 10GB of GDDR6 memory on a 160-bit interface, capable of up to 380 GB/s of bandwidth. The TDP for the Sparkle Guardian version is 170 watts.
In our review of the Arc B570, we found the GPU performs almost identically to the RTX 3060 12GB and Arc A770 16GB, while beating the RX 7600 by 10% in our rasterized-only geomean at 1080p on ultra settings. The B570 performs even better in ray tracing; in our RT-only geomean at 1080p, we saw the Battlemage GPU outperform the RTX 3060 and A770, with performance approaching the RTX 4060.
That said, the B570 couldn't achieve a solid 60 FPS at 1080p ultra settings in our testing. But that is not really expected from a mid-range card in the $200 price point. Better still, the card comes with XeSS support, allowing you to boost frame rates with upscaling, and lowering settings will inevitably yield higher frame rates regardless.
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Even before its 13% discount, the Arc B570 was and is the best graphics card in the $200 market. Thanks to AMD and Nvidia largely leaving the space, Intel has been able to dominate it largely uncontested. The closest competitor to the B570 in the $200 ballpark currently is the neutered 8GB variant of the RTX 3060, which is both slower and has less VRAM than the B570. The B570 is so good that it currently sits at the top of our .