Intel Arc B580 Battlemage does well in Vulkan and OpenCL benchmarks
Faster than Geforce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 XT
As reviewers are busy testing Intel's Arc B580 Battlemage graphics cards, the recent leak shows it to be faster in Vulkan and Open CL benchmarks at Geekbench, beating both the RTX 4070 and the RX 7600 XT.
Valve Genius fixed video game lighting calculations
The maths was all wrong
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Zen 6 Medusa Ridge processor leaked
Turns you to stone
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Intel Arc Battlemage could be announced next week
Two SKUs launching in mid-December
According to the latest information, Intel could announce its new Arc Battlemage graphics card next week, on December 3rd, with availability expected a week later, on December 12th. Intel will launch two SKUs, the Arc B580 and the Arc B570, with the rest of the lineup coming at a later date.
Intel Arc B580 Battlemage leaks in Geekbench benchmark
Confirms 20 Xe2-cores, 12GB of VRAM and 2.85GHz clock
With the Intel B580 graphics card launch apparently just around the corner, it does not come as a surprise that we are now getting the first leaks from popular benchmarks. The latest one, from the Geekbench benchmark, pretty much confirms previous rumors of 20 Xe2 GPU cores, 12GB of VRAM, and a 2.85GHz clock.