Folks, it is official! Intel has confirmed an upcoming event centered around its Arc GPUs - likely Team Blue's Battlemage desktop lineup - for December 3rd on X (formerly Twitter). On that note, a never-before-seen Arc B570 has been spotted in the wild at a French wholesale dealer, 1foTrade, thanks to user josefk972 on X. This GPU will likely be announced alongside the extensively leaked Arc B580 next week.
AIBs such as Gunnir have already started to confirm Battlemage's arrival in early December, which aligns with previous rumors. From what we've managed to gather based on leaks, the Arc B580 packs 20 Xe Cores (2,560 ALUs), a large 12GB VRAM, and boost clocks hitting 2.85 GHz - with initial LE (Limited Edition) variant listings priced at $250. In addition, leaks allege that the Arc B580, the new Arc B570 - the topic of our story - and AMD's upcoming Navi 44-based budget cards can reportedly outpace Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti in specific benchmarks.
