Intel just officially announced two new Battlemage graphics cards, and entry-level PC enthusiasts are in for a treat. Not only is there a Arc B580 GPU with 12GB VRAM for $249, there's a 10GB Arc B570 for just $229. That's already a chunk cheaper than Nvidia and AMD's current budget offerings, so it's safe to say the blue team is up for a pricing war when they arrive on December 13 and January 16.
Armed with Intel's Xe2 Battlemage GPU, the upcoming best graphics card contenders will use the same architecture as the company's Lunar Lake CPUs. The difference is that these cards will boast double the graphics cores and the aforementioned 10GB and 12GB memory configurations. Naturally, these new options aren't remotely designed to take on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 or even its mid-range underlings.
