ASRock cards leaked with Intel B580 Battlemage, they have 12GB VRAM and high clocks

Introducing new graphics cards Intel Arc Battlemage to the desktop realm should be just a matter of weeks. Intel has announced significant improvements at the architecture level, with significantly higher clocks to come. Together with the ever-improving drivers, we hope that the fiasco of the Arc Alchemist cards will not be repeated, when they did not achieve nearly as much performance at launch as after several driver updates, which clearly hurt them (the first impression plays a big role, many people did not notice the subsequent improvements). Two records of ASRock graphics cards that already have the new Arc Battlemage architecture appeared on Amazon, namely the B580 Challenger OC and the B580 Steel Legend OC.

ASRock Intel Arc B580 Challenger OC is a card with two fans and a 2-slot cooler, one HDMI and 3 DisplayPorts, the power supply is then handled by a single classic 8-pin connector, which suggests that the consumption of this overclocked model should be up to 225 W. However, we do not know the exact TDP, the predecessor had 185 W The positive news is the increase in VRAM capacity compared to the predecessor from 8 GB to 12 GB, on the other hand, the 256-bit bus narrowed down to 192 bits. With 19Gbps ​​chips, this still means a very nice throughput of 456 GB/s. That’s not much lower than the A580’s 512GB/su. While the A580 had 24 Xe cores, the B580 will go a little lower to 20 Xe2 cores.

ASRock Intel Arc B580 Steel Legend OC it has a bright design and in this case we find a 2.5-slot cooler with three fans. To be sure, it already contains two 8-pin connectors and the chip frequency here reaches 2800 MHz. This is a very significant increase against the A580, which was only 1700 MHz in base, however, most A580 cards had a Boost of around 2000 MHz. This means a 40% increase in frequencies and a 17% reduction in the number of cores, overall 17% higher gross performance. However, we must not forget that Battlemage already showed a roughly 40% increase in performance in Lunar Lake processors due to better architecture (when converted to the same gross performance given by the number of cores and clocks), so this would give us about 60% more performance than Intel A580. And that certainly doesn’t sound bad.

The new Intel graphics cards will of course support both Intel XeSS and Intel XMX for improved matrix calculations, which is useful e.g. even for algorithms using AI.