Ray Tracing Gameplay Performance
A lot of the games we have in our lineup today actually run with and utilize ray tracing baked into the game natively, with ray-trace calculated lights. Those games include Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Doom: The Dark Ages, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, and Star Wars Outlaws. However, there are some other games we used that can also flip on optional ray tracing options, and Star Wars Outlaws allows an RTX Direct Lighting option. Therefore, on this page, we’ll flip on these ray tracing options in the other games and see how well the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition can do. Because of the demand on performance, most of this testing is at 1080p, but we do include some 1440p comparisons as well in some games.
For comparison, we are using an ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 OC Edition, a Radeon RX 7600 8GB reference card, and a SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 XT (also an OC card) video card. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is a 12GB video card.
Alan Wake 2
In Alan Wake 2, we are running at 1080p above using the “Low” Ray Tracing preset, so this is the lowest possible RT option in the game. None of the cards are playable at native resolution, but look at this, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is actually the fastest card, and is playable with Upscaling enabled at 60FPS! That’s just downright neat. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is 30% faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 and 28% faster than the Radeon RX 7600 XT. It’s pretty crazy to see the GeForce RTX card getting beat in ray tracing so hard, but there you go.
Cyberpunk 2077
Of course, we have to try out ray tracing performance in Cyberpunk 2077. In the graph above, we are running at 1080p and the “Medium” ray tracing preset, so this isn’t the highest RT, it’s in the middle. Again, surprisingly, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition does really well and provides 50FPS at native resolution, and is actually playable with Upscaling at 77FPS! The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition beats the factory overclocked GeForce RTX 4060 by 11%, and beats the Radeon RX 7600 XT by 35%. Once again, very strong RT performance from the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition.
We also wanted to see what would happen at 1440p, but we did have to lower ray tracing to “Low” preset here, so this is the lowest ray tracing option in the game. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition does well once again, with the fastest performance. Even at 1440p, this game is playable with Low RT with Upscaling at 76FPS! The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is 38% faster than the GeForce RTX 4060, which is pretty amazing. We think the RTX 4060 is running into a VRAM limitation here with RT at 1440p also. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is 24% faster than the Radeon RX 7600 XT.
Star Wars Outlaws
Star Wars Outlaws has an additional ray tracing option called NVIDIA RTX Direct Lighting. We enabled this feature on the “Low” preset quality at 1080p. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition pulls through yet again, and now matches performance with the GeForce RTX 4060, which is shocking to see, but there you go. In fact, with Upscaling, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is actually somewhat playable at 55FPS with this feature enabled. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is 24% faster than the Radeon RX 7600 XT.