Today we will be taking a look at the ASRock Steel Legend Intel Arc B580 graphics card. It uses the latest next-gen Arc B580 GPU (codename Battlemage) featuring Intel’s new Xe2-HPG Architecture. The GPU includes exciting features such as Xe Super Sample (XeSS) AI upscaling, Intel X Matrix Extensions (XMX) AI Engines and Raytracing.
It features 20 Xe2 cores operating at an overclock speed of 2.8 GHz (default is 2.67GHz), and comes with 12GB of GDDR6 VRam on a 192-bit memory bus running at 19 Gbps. The card uses PCIE 4.0 x8 interface and has, and has a total board power of 190W.
For cooling, the card comes with 3 striped ring fans with heatpipes, a large heatsink and a solid metal backplate.
The card uses 2 x 8-pin PCIE power connectors which means it powered by a vast majority of power supplies. For video outputs, it includes 1 x HDMI 2.1 and 3 x Displayport 2.1.
And lastly, it comes with built-in ARGB LEDs which is compatible with ASRock’s Polychrome Sync.
For many years, intel have been trying to capture a minute share in the graphics card market. I can tell you … It’s not easy, especially when you have dominant players like Nvidia and AMD with over 2 decades of experience.
With a price tag of around USD $250+, this card is primarily targeted at the mainstream market for gamers and content creators on a budget.
How will users take the Intel Arc B580? Well let’s find out and put this in to our testing …
I would like to thank ASRock for providing the review sample. This is a snippet from what ASRock has to say about themselves on their website:
ASRock Inc. is established in 2002, specialized in the field of motherboards. ASRock strives to build up its own brand. With the 3C design concept, “Creativity, Consideration, Cost-effectiveness”, the company explores the limit of motherboards manufacturing while paying attention on the eco issue at the same time, developing products with the consideration of eco-friendly concept.
ASRock has been growing fast and become world third largest motherboard brand with headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in Europe and the USA. The young and vibrant company targets from mainstream to enthusiast MB segments for different kinds of users, owning reputation around the world market with its reliability and proficiency.
As you can see from the above slide, the Intel Arc B580 has a default clock speed of 2,670 MHz. It also includes 5 Render slices. 20 Ray Tracing Units, and 160 XMX AI Engines. The Typical Board Power is rated at a fairly low 190W, so we recommend a mimimum power supply of 750W or higher.
The ASRock Steel Legend Intel Arc B580 uses a slightly overclocked GPU that operates on a Boost Clock speed of up to 2.8 GHz (the default is 2,670 MHz), and features 12GB of GDDR6 VRam on a 192-bit memory bus running at 19 Gbps.
Our test rig will consist of an Intel Core i9-14900K, along with a Z790 motherboard, 32GB of DDR5-7400 ram and PCIE Gen5 1TB SDD running Windows 11.
Let’s get down to business and start by taking a look at the specifications of the graphics card on our next page.
At the time of review, we didn’t get a price on the ASRock Steel Legend Intel Arc B580 graphics card, but you can buy something similar – GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming OC graphics card for around USD $280 from Amazon – https://amzn.to/4gbh9kR
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