Is Intel Arc B580 actually a good GPU? How’s the performance, features, and driver support?

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Commercial_Pride3459@reddit

how is the b580 with streaming? has it improved

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IWillAssFuckYou@reddit

I'd say find a used card if you can as you'll usually get better value out of a used card. B580 is not a 1440p card, it's a 1080p card.

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switzer3@reddit

its a 1440p card wdym

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IWillAssFuckYou@reddit

Looking at benchmarks, it is really quite underwhelming compared to my old 3070 Ti, which was enough to do 1440p at 144FPS at medium settings. It's definitely not a 1440p card that's going to give you high fps on modern titles. imo a proper 1440p card would be more like a card like a 5070 Ti which can actually do 1440p 144+ fps at highest settings, but 1440p and above aren't really budget territory. You'll find that a majority of PC gamers are still playing at 1080p because 1440p isn't offering a great experience on cards lower than a 3070. And I would do the same myself if I had such a low end card.

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Eeve2espeon@reddit

The 3070ti is a good card, but not that high in performance. Also that card WAS a 1440p capable card, now it can't go any higher than 1080p due to a lack of VRAM, not unless you had that rare 16GB version (which only a few were made)

The B580 can still very much do 1440p 60fps ultra quality, since ultra quality in games is more suited for 1440p compared to maximum settings

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Kramy@reddit

What the heck are you smoking? The 3070TI has the same RAM as the B580, and gets anywhere from 10% to 50% more FPS depending upon the game. Lots of reviews and YouTube videos corroborate this. It's a far more capable card than the B580.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC8IfsfI3Fo

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IWillAssFuckYou@reddit

Wasn't smoking at all. The 3070 Ti has less VRAM. B580 is 12 GB VRAM and 3070 Ti has 8 GB, but I was saying that the B580 is underwhelming because benchmarks I saw online have raw performance worse than my 3070 Ti. Never claimed the B580 was better. But also 8 GB VRAM really does hold you back in 1440p in games when you exceed it, so the B580 may win when the 3070 Ti is out of VRAM. Performance takes a massive hit when the system needs to share actual RAM with the GPU.

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Xebakyr@reddit

I like how the video that you linked proves one of your statements as incorrect.

"3070ti has the sam RAM as the B580"

Well... neither of them have RAM, but i'll not be pedantic because I know you meant VRAM. Of which the B580 had 12gb, and the 3070ti has 8gb.

It's literally in the thumbnail. Of the video you linked. It's also in the description.

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HornetPitiful549@reddit

Hey! I'm building a PC in a few months, and the B580 seems to be a really tempting choice. Is pairing it with R5 5600x a good idea? Or are there any better options? (Would like to stay in am4, cuz prices on motherboards, Ram and SSD skyrocket on newer platform)

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Eeve2espeon@reddit

You'd have to ask someone who has more experience with the B580. I'm just going off general reception and performance metrics about the B580, not all games will run at 1440p 60fps ultra, but on paper its still a good card

Though I'd say get a Ryzen 7 instead if you do wanna play games at 1440p with this card

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HornetPitiful549@reddit

Thanks, I will check that out

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Major_Guarantee_1345@reddit

How was it for you?

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HornetPitiful549@reddit

I actually built my PC with Intel Arc b580 + Ryzen 5 7500f. And it has been fucking amazing so far. I can strongly recommend this combo. I also love the fact, that the GPU basically makes no sound at all

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Standard-Judgment459@reddit

Thanks I don't want to break the bank. My 2080 super died off, so for black friday getting new case, psu and gpu. Then next month I will get a higher end card just getting gpu to hold me off for now. I think a b580 is decent unless upon purchase time I find loke a 3060 12gb for the same price.

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Okla_Soft@reddit

I ran an A750 for 2 years when I built my first “modern” PC on almost 20 years, before that I simply used free dell opti’s I got from work and never really gamed on PC since the early 00s…. I am still very impressed with Intel GPUs in-general, I was able to stream and run multiple monitors (1440 and 4k) off that card and run most switch games at 4k 60fps with a few bugs here and there but nothing major… Driver support is excellent nowadays and video encoding / editing in CapCut was superb considering the specs of the card and the 8GB vram The b580 is even better in most cases compared to the A750 but there are still tasks where the 16GB a770 beats it depending on the application and use case… If you aren’t purely a gamer and like great value for rendering tasks I honestly think Intel is the way to go… If you need cutting edge AAA game support and want “industry standard” go with Nvidia… I love AMD CPUs but have heard a lot of people bitch about their GPUs… Most content creators run Nvidia from what I hear, AMD has the worst driver support of the 3, but YMMV of course and it really depends on what you’re using your PC for.

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Standard-Judgment459@reddit

Using my b580 now it's good for everything. Yea I tried amd them black screen are no fun. Intel been fixed with there issues.

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Kramy@reddit

The B580 is basically the same performance as the 2080 Super. They are +/- 10-15% across most games. The super wins in more of them, but overall it's the same performance level. The main benefits of the B580 are price and quietness.

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Standard-Judgment459@reddit

Yea also 2080 super has better upscaling once intel produces a better xess it will be even more competitive in the gpu space.

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HornetPitiful549@reddit

Really, just go for the b580, you won't regret it. It is honestly amazing! But anyway, good luck with fulfilling your plans

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Standard-Judgment459@reddit

Thanks I will try the b580.

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timmmay82@reddit

Great card for the price. Most of the driver compatibility quirks are non-existent. It was the official launch card for battlefield 6, indicating Intel dedicated tremendous resources to EA. The drivers also now have near perfect unreal engine support. Linux support is still middling with the buggy resolution support (I couldn’t get it to natively output to my 1280x1024 NEC LCD because it couldn’t detect a connection via HDMI to DVI adapter - apparently Intel requires the audio channel for hdmi to detect a connection, which DVI lacks. I ended up doing a DisplayPort to HDMI converter then a HDMI to DVI to resolve this….as there is no passive DP to DVI option.

The quirks are minimal and for most people it certainly doesn’t affect the value the card offers. We’re talking 12GB VRAM and a string GPU that only gets stronger and more efficient with every driver and firmware update.

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Mysterious-Body-5663@reddit

Does 5700 support paie 4

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Stock_Impression_723@reddit

I was contemplating getting the Lumi ARC B580 as well since it was readily available on Newegg for $239.

However I was able to find a Asus 9060 XT 16gb new for $240 including taxes so ultimately went that route. Honestly I think if you wait and search for a 16gb version under $300 Id rather just go for the 9060XT.

Best Bang for your buck.

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Tiny_Yard_254@reddit

Where'd you get the 9060XT for such a steal price? Genuine question

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Due-Leather6398@reddit

I'm planning on getting this as a temporary card till I have enough for a higher quality card

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axelweb-sh@reddit

Excellent support on Linux with B580, I solved a bug I have with an AMD RX 6600 on Arch Linux.

I recommend the B580, very quiet, performance OK, and the design of the limited edition is really killer

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axelweb-sh@reddit

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SwimmingResort8777@reddit

I just "upgraded" my B580 to a 9070xt..... the improvement in quality and frames is no where near price difference. Contemplating reinstalling the B580 and selling the 9070xt.

I work at a tech repair shop and the amount of repairs that involved installing a 6 month old driver on gaming computers with both AMD and Nvidia GPUs is ridiculous. Intel on the other hand just runs a tiny little update program which seems to have updates around once a week. No issues or hiccups ever, always silent fan and amazing frames at 1440p for a $300 card.

The only drawback I have found with the B580 was no support for my Rift S or VR drivers in general. I was not using my headset much anymore so not much of a drawback.

I generally dislike most things about Intel and the company in general. I would still definetly recommend the B580. Was hoping the talk of a beefier B model would come through but with memory prices from the AI nonsense I doubt that they can sell it for the same value for money as the B580.

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Stalin-Centrist@reddit

The B770 shall be presented at CES, has 32 EUs instead of the 20 in the B580, probably a huge cache and higher clock. It should reach 25K in normal TimeSpy by these specs.

If intel can throw out a 16GB-model for $400, take my money, ordered already a cheap, little NUC 11 Extreme for the B770 in spe (and my dusty 64GB Kingston Fury) for 400€. Me personally simply hate nvidia and amd more than intel, no game really needs a 9850X3D drawing a 100W in idle.

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Key-Pace2960@reddit

Driver support in games is very good these days, productivity software is hit or miss, in my experience especially adobe doesn't play nicely with Arc.

XESS 2 is also really good, I think right now it's generally the worst upscaler between itself, FSR4 and DLSS 4 but it's by a very small margin to a point where it depends on a game by game basis. Biggest problem is the lack of widespread adoption. XESS framegen works great.

Ray tracing compares pretty well to competing AMD and NVIDIA cards, in terms of raster performance to RT ratio it seems to land somewhere in the middle between RDNA 4 and Blackwell. That being said it's still a low end card, so you're not gonna be running heavy RT workloads in it.

I think the biggest issues are the higher CPU overhead, requirement for rebar and only supporting an x8 PCIe connection, somewhat limiting it as a viable budget upgrade for older systems.

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wolfhuntra@reddit

Will it work with an AMD 5600 cpu? Or is it optimized for an Intel chipset/Intel CPU?

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AldermanAl@reddit

Yes it will work.

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UrethralSwab00@reddit

Been considering getting a b580 for my SteamOS/Linux build. Would you say it’s worth getting over maybe a 9060 xt?

Been experimenting with my friends 9070xt and I’ve noticed if I ever wanna use fsr4, I always seem to need to use optiscaler, and sometimes it glitches out as opposed to using fsr4 on windows.

Also how is XeSS 2.0 upscaler on a native Intel gpu as opposed to using its upscaler on an rdna4 card? Cause like previous statement, with Titan Quest 2 in particular I can’t even use fsr4. Same with Yakuza 8. If I try to use optiscaler, it’ll just crash.

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Key-Pace2960@reddit

XeSS on Intel cards looks quite better than what you're getting on AMD or NVIDIA cards, that version is a lower quality fallback.

Personally if I could stretch my budget to a 9060 XT 16GB I think it's worth the extra money. Optiscaler really isn't that big of a hassle and works well most of the time but I have noticed the occasional issue and you'll probably wanna avoid it in multiplayer games due to anti cheat concerns. But again it works pretty well most of the time in my experience and most games coming out now and going forward will have FSR 4 support. XeSS is more widespread than FSR4/3.1 but it's still not as ubiquitous as FSR 2/3 or DLSS so you'll still be relying on optiscaler to get it to work now and then.

Plus a 9060 XT is a faster card in general and also allows you to get away with a much slower CPU. Not every game is gonna suffer equally from the extra CPU overhead on arc but there are some games that suffer a lot. As a recent pretty extreme example I Battlefield 6 a 5900x with my arc b580 runs into a CPU bottleneck at around 65-85 FPS, using that same CPU with my 9070 XT, I am running into a CPU bottleneck at around 110-130 FPS. It's definitely one of the more extreme outliers and by the nature of BF6 being an at time chaotic multiplayer game those numbers are just ballparks but it helps to illustrate that the CPU overhead is far from a solved issue.

If it's between the b580 and the 8GB version it's a bit of a different story but if the 16GB version is within your budget I definitely think it's worth the jump.

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LoudSalamander817@reddit

The b580 is a big hunk of literal metal scrap garbage attached to fans

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mutualdisagreement@reddit

Using my 3-fan B580 OC for 1440 gaming and it does a good job. I love its non existent noise level. Back in march I bought it for 330€. Updated driver is released like every 1-3 weeks. I appreciate intel's clean and intuitive driver GUI. I love the way the driver handles crashes, it's exemplary. The driver literally invites to try out some OC. Don't regret my B580. If I'd buy a new card right now, I'd be torn apart between B580 or 9060 XT.

But my main goal was/is a decent gaming experience with a reasonable power consumption. I don't have a problem to fine tune settings to get stable 60 FPS and a flatline frametime. And it was a decision against NVIDIA, against their dominant position, which they exploit and hurt the market.

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Youcanonacanon@reddit

330 Euro lol

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RayesArmstrong@reddit

While I’m sure you want to take advice from someone with that username all day, yes it’s a good card. It’s certainly better for 1080 but especially with a string CPU is going to do most things very well. I have no issue at all with mine and it often stays so cool the fans don’t even turn on.

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SoulyTheOne@reddit

What kind of CPU are we taking about?

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RayesArmstrong@reddit

This is with an r7 5700x.

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monketman3@reddit

ryzen 9 7950X3D is a mid one

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RayesArmstrong@reddit

What

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Sparklezhitz@reddit

Aaaaand here comes the upgrade! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfqGqj2bFj8

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arctic_wolf08@reddit (OP)

I watched that video, really nice to see that they fixed the cpu overhead issue

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IrrelevantTale@reddit

It is a really good card on par with a 4060 and at its price point is a growth choice.

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Grydian@reddit

It has bad driver overhead and isn't great for now end systems. It also doesn't have that great price to performance now that both AMD and Nvidia have released newer gpus. I would take the 5060 over it at 1080p. Far less driver overhead for Nvidia. Dlss 4 is far better than xess

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Shunl@reddit

For me it’s been a solid 1440p ultra card. No extra driver bloat, no hiccups, and the fans are basically silent. It just works without fuss and honestly I’m really happy with it. Kinda glad I trusted my own gut.

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Eeve2espeon@reddit

To some degree, yes. But don't expect amazing energy efficiency with the card, its somehow the same performance as the RTX4060, but is 190 watts. Even if the 12GBs of VRAM makes it suitable for 1440p gaming