Almost all indicators show that Intel aims to announce at least one Battlemage desktop GPU next month—the Arc B580—to compete against the best graphics cards. As spotted by momomo_us, Intel is seemingly cooking up an Arc B580 Limited Edition GPU for $250 based on preliminary listings. It is important to note that this $250 price tag might not reflect the B580's MSRP for AIB models at launch.
The Arc B580, seen across shipping manifests, official retailer listings, and even benchmarks, is rumored to carry 20 Xe Cores or 2,560 ALUs, 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM across a 192-bit memory interface, and a boost clock of 2.85 GHz - netting it 14.6 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. Team Blue is set to launch this GPU before the end of the year in December, though we cannot confirm if other variants are also planned. Limited Edition GPUs are based on Intel's reference cooler and are produced in limited quantities. As seen with the Arc A770 Limited Edition, these variants can be discontinued relatively quickly.
