Intel’s recently released Arc Pro B70 32 GB GPU has been tested in games, outperforming the Arc B580, and trading blows with the RTX 5060 Ti.
Intel Arc Pro B70 GPU Gaming Benchmarks Give Us A Hint of What The Arc B770 “Big Battlemage” GPU Could’ve Offered To Gamers
Back in March, Intel launched its Arc Pro B70 graphics card based on the Battlemage BMG-G31 GPU, which we all know as Big Battlemage. This bigger Battlemage chip was long-awaited in the gaming segment, but Intel decided to focus its efforts towards the AI market, equipping the card with a large 32 GB memory that rivals the RTX 5090 at a much lower price point.
Last month, Intel also rolled out an Arc graphics driver, specifically introducing gaming support on its Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 graphics cards. This driver allowed reviewers to test the gaming performance of the GPU and provide us a hint at what the gaming variant, Arc B770, could have offered.
Now, Expreview has tested the Arc Pro B70 using the latest drivers across many games against the Arc Pro B580 and RTX 5060 Ti to see whether a Big Battlemage graphics card would’ve been worth it or not.
But before we look at the benchmarks, let’s start by recapping the specifications. The Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card is the flagship Arc B-Series offering. It features the full BMG-G31 GPU, which packs 32 Xe2-HPG cores, 256 XMX Engines, 32 RT units, and provides 367 INT8 TOPS for AI workloads. The graphics card features 32 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit bus interface. The memory is clocked at 19 Gbps, delivering 608 GB/s of total bandwidth. The GPU itself is clocked at 2800 MHz.
With the specs out of the way, let’s begin by looking at the 1440p “Raster” benchmarks. The first game is Cyberpunk 2077, where the Arc Pro B70 scores 90.27 FPS versus 5060 Ti’s 79.06 FPS and 66.02 FPS on the Arc B580. That’s a 36.7% improvement over the Arc B580 and a 14% improvement over the 16 GB 5060 Ti.
In the rest of the three benchmarks, which include Black Myth Wukong, Marvel Rivals, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the Arc Pro B70 is up to 41% faster than the Arc B580, whereas the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB takes an overall lead.
Then we have the RT benchmarks, which include F1 25, Doom The Dark Ages, Cyberpunk 2077, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows. In the first three games, the Intel Arc Pro B70 manages to beat the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB by an average of 9%, with the biggest advantage in F1 2025 of up to 14%. In the rest of the games, the RTX 5060 Ti posts a small lead. Versus the Arc B580, the Arc Pro B70 is up to 65.7% faster and 40% on average.
The review also covers AI-specific benchmarks such as MLPerf Client with the Arc Pro B70 offering the highest token throughput, and the lowest time in TTFT (Time-To-First-Token), showcasing a lead over NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 Ti using Windows ML. Intel’s OpenVINO support should offer even better compute capabilities in AI.
These benchmarks show that if Intel were to release a gaming-optimized variant of the Big Battlemage GPU, such as the Arc B770, it would have been at least 40-50% faster than the Arc Pro B580, & would have matched or exceeded the performance of a 5060 Ti 16 GB, which retails around $500 US right now. The Arc Pro B70 is priced at $949, but that’s due to its Pro nature and 32 GB VRAM.
A 16 GB gamer-tuned variant with a price of $400-$500 would’ve been a really nice option; unfortunately, it seems like we won’t be seeing one at all due to memory supply constraints affecting the PC consumer markets right now.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech’s Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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