Conclusion
The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is Intel’s latest $249 entrant into the market, based on its latest Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU. The Intel Arc B-Series launched in December 2024, and we have already looked at the cut-down version with the Intel Arc B570 back in January.
Today, we took a look at what the higher-end of this GPU SKU had to offer in gaming performance here in mid-2025. Using the latest drivers, now six months from its launch, and throwing in some new game titles, we could see how it really stands up and with what card it aligns with compared to the competition at this price point. We tested at 1080p, 1440p, using games that have native ray tracing always on, and other games that you can toggle RT options, as well as Upscaling in every scenario using XeSS Upscaling when possible.
Performance
The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition mostly impressed us with performance, though there were a couple of troublesome games in terms of performance. For the most part, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition was faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 XT. In Alan Wake 2, we were able to play at 60FPS at native resolution at 1080p, and at 1440p, we did need to use Upscaling, but then it was playable at 60FPS. Black Myth: Wukong was one game where the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition trailed in performance, even at 1080p, you’ll be using Upscaling, or having to lower the game settings to Medium. At 1440p, Upscaling is required; you will also have to lower the quality setting to Medium.
We threw in two new games: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Doom: The Dark Ages. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is very demanding, and at 1080p, this game is playable on Epic as long as you use XeSS Upscaling. However, you are better off just lowering the image quality to High or even Medium if you don’t want Upscaling at 1080p on the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition performed slower than other cards in this particular game. At 1440p, you’ll definitely need to use XeSS Upscaling at Medium quality settings.
Doom: The Dark Ages performed very well, though. The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition was playable at Ultra Nightmare at 1080p and ran smoothly without hitching. If you want to aim for over 60FPS, drop to Ultra or Medium, though. At 1440p, the game also ran well, but Upscaling will be required. Even at Low, you cannot achieve 60FPS on the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition at 1440p. But in terms of comparison, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition rivaled the GeForce RTX 4060, which was neat.
Cyberpunk 2077 ran really well on the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition, it smashed every other video card. It can actually run at 60FPS up to 1440p native resolution at Ultra settings, which is pretty amazing to see. It offered a large performance improvement over the RTX 4060 by 34% at 1440p. In Horizon Forbidden West the 12GB of VRAM really came in handy, and allowed the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition to run much more smoothly than the 8GB cards. Turning on XeSS Upscaling at 1440p is the way to go there, but at 1080p, native resolution was fine.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle once again showed the problem with 8GB GPUs, as we couldn’t run above Medium on them. However, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition most certainly could; we could run all the way up to Supreme quality settings at 1080p and 1440p on the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition smoothly. What’s more, the game was playable and on par with the RTX 4060 in ray tracing performance. Kingdom Come Deliverance II also ran well on the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition at 1080p Ultra and native resolution. At 1440p, you will need to drop the game settings to Medium, but the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition smashed performance compared to all the other cards.
Stalker 2, like Clair Obscur, is a game that the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition trails in performance by comparison. At 1080p, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is playable at Epic with Upscaling, but really, you’ll probably want to drop to High settings at 1080p, and even then, it still trails every single card technically. At 1440p, you’ll have to drop to Medium and require Upscaling to get over 60FPS. Finally, Star Wars Outlaws was a real standout for the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition, rivaling the GeForce RTX 4060 at its own game. It was playable at 1080p Ultra with Upscalng, and 1440p Medium with Upscaling.
Overall, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is on par with or faster than the GeForce RTX 4060. It is faster than the Radeon RX 7600 XT and Radeon RX 7600. Ray Tracing is a strong point of the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition, in games that have it always on, it does really well, and turning it on in other games, it does really well, rivaling even the GeForce RTX 4060’s RT performance. It is always faster than the Radeon RX 7600/XT with RT. There are a couple of games that the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition struggles with, but mostly it is above the competition at this price point.
Final Points
We must reiterate, we purchased this Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition online at B&H; it was available at the time and not too much above its MSRP, and it arrived very quickly from B&H. This shows that the Intel Arc B580 can be obtained, and not for an enormous amount of money outside of its MSRP, if you look around. While in the past, after launch, the availability of this card and its pricing were bad, we get it, but that seems to have eased up a bit at this point in time, and we hope this trend continues.
The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is a great card at its MSRP of $249, but it starts to lose its value quickly above $300. We got it for $289, and I would argue that is still a great value since you are getting a 12GB video card under $300. We have seen several games today, where 8GB VRAM video cards are hindering performance and the gameplay experience. If it is bad now, imagine how it will be in a couple of years, or the lifetime of a new card.
Performance-wise, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is a better GeForce RTX 4060 alternative. It can rival the GeForce RTX 4060 in many circumstances, depending on the game. What the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition offers is a higher VRAM capacity, and that is very useful for gaming in 2025 and beyond. The additional VRAM helped smooth out gameplay and reduce hitches and stuttering, which we did encounter with both the 8GB Radeon RX 7600 and 8GB GeForce RTX 4060.
While the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB also runs smoothly, the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition just runs much much faster, especially in games today, which are defaulting to baked-in Ray Tracing, especially UE5 games. Even in new games, like Doom: The Dark Ages, this is the case, and the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition does really well in that game. Drivers have improved immensely, and the concerns of the previous generation have been minimized. We encountered no issues or bugs in our testing, not even in the newly released titles.
We have no problem today recommending the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition as a value video card on a budget, as long as it’s near its MSRP of $249, of course.