Review from Phoronix.

Introduction: Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. In this article are some initial Arc Pro B70 single card benchmarks on Linux compared to other Intel Arc Graphics hardware across AI / LLM with OpenVINO and Llama.cpp, OpenCL compute benchmarks, and also some OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks. More benchmarks and the competitive compares will come as that fresh testing wraps up, but so far the Arc Pro B70 is working out rather well atop the fully open-source Linux graphics driver stack.

Results:

• Across all of the AI/LLM, SYCL, OpenCL, and other GPU compute benchmarks the Arc Pro B70 was around 1.32x the performance of the Arc B580 graphics card.
• With the various OpenGL and Vulkan graphics benchmarks carried out the Arc Pro B70 was around 1.38x the performance of the Arc B580.
• As noted, no GPU power consumption numbers due to the Intel Xe driver on Linux 7.0 having not exposed any of the real-time power sensor data.

Whole article with all benchmarks is worth taking a look at.