5/21/2025 – Update: We’ve added an image of the PCB taken at Computex 25.
So the rumors are true that MAXSUN has indeed created a dual-GPU Intel Arc Pro B60 graphics card featuring 48 GB of memory. Last week, vague bits of info began to leak that the electronics manufacturer could be prepping some kind of dual-GPu/double the VRAM graphics card but at the time details were scarce enough to make it confusing as to if that would be either a dual B580 with 24 GB of memory or the just announced Intel Arc Pro B860 and now we have the answer with a dual version of the latter.
Gamers hoping for a BFG edition of an Arc Battlemage card will still have to keep their fingers crossed for something else, as the MAXSUN Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo is clearly designed for AI workstation solutions and not gaming. However, rumors about a dual B580 have reportedly continued to circulate at Computex, so there’s still a chance of that one happening.
Unlike past consumer-grade graphics cards, which featured two GPUs that essentially worked together similarly as SLI/Crossfire, this professional grade has its processors, each with their respective 24 GB memory, communicating independently to the CPU through PCIe lane bifurcation. Intel said in its announcement yesterday that the B60 supports PCIe Gen 5 x8, which means this dual-GPU version splits each processor’s data across PCIe Gen 5 x16. Such design choices with unused PCIe lanes are not wholly unheard of with graphics cards and have been seen in select consumer-grade cards where an expansion slot or NVMe SSD has been included to function via the unused lanes.
Since MAXSUN has simply incorporated two Arc Pro B60s into its card, most of the above specs could essentially be doubled to represent its specifications. Individual GPU details, such as memory speed and bandwidth, should be about the same, while combined core counts, Peak TOPS, and TBP details should be representative of its potential and usage scenarios. MAXSUN has not revealed pricing for this product yet, but Intel (via Tom’s Hardware) has indicated that its B60 graphics cards will retail for ~$500 each, so a reasonable guess for MAXSUN’s could be in the $1000-$1500 range. If this pans out to be accurate, it would make for a very competitively priced workstation card, but this is still an out-on-a-limb guess.
Per Press Release:
“Built with a dual-GPU architecture, the card features 48GB of GDDR6 memory and dual hardware media engines, delivering the compute power required for demanding AI inference workloads. It easily supports models such as the distilled and quantized version of DeepSeek-r1:70B, which requires at least 43GB of memory. The large memory capacity helps eliminate performance bottlenecks, enabling extended context handling, high concurrency, and stable output in multi-turn conversations.
The Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo also offers broad software compatibility. It has native support for PyTorch, Intel ISV certifications, IPEX-LLM inference engine, and vLLM frameworks, making it a practical solution for diverse AI development scenarios.
Designed for accessibility, the card uses PCIe 5.0 x8 + x8 interfaces and runs efficiently on consumer platforms that support PCIe x16 lane bifurcation. Several MAXSUN motherboards already support this feature, allowing users to unlock full dual-GPU performance without requiring an enterprise-grade platform, significantly reducing system deployment costs.
To ensure sustained performance during long-running, high-load tasks, the card adopts a triple-layer cooling system, including a turbo-style blower fan, a large-area vapor chamber heat plate, and a full-cover metal backplate. Its dual-slot width design also enables stable multi-GPU installations for professional computing environments.
The Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo expands our growing portfolio of professional computing hardware. From our MS-WorkStation W790 112L, engineered for high-performance workstation workloads, to the MS-Q670M vPro, built for secure and efficient enterprise systems, MAXSUN continues to offer scalable, reliable solutions across sectors.”
Discussion (19 replies)
Join Discussion →Unfortunately it's only really good for compute loads and not for workloads like gaming... unless maybe streaming where one can be dedicated to maintaining and running your stream process/encoding and the other to the game... but that's a niche of a niche use.
Yeah, here's hoping the dual b580 rumors pan out to become something because that might be an interesting gaming card. This however is a non-gaming card but if the price is right and could be well under $2K would be a serious competitor to NVIDIA's prosumer products. A single B60 is said to go for around $500 so double, and mark it up a bit means in the $1500 range and NVIDIA doesn't have an AI offering that I know of at that price point with similar specs as this.
Might finally see something lowering the price of 5090s then. AI spend has been a big issue with them flying off of shelves. 2 or more of these cards even up.to four in a ai box would be amazing.
What's the power draw on the b60's? Single and Duo? I am a but curious. Cost of operating is a big part (for me anyways) of a buy decision too.
There's slides in the post with specs for them and this.
Unlikely on the dual B580, I bet if it comes out, it will be a compute/AI card.
Either intel figures out how to make dual gpus work as one, or intel gets developer support for multigpu games. I don't see either happening.
I'm seeing the "120W to 200W" figure, and thinking that's rather absurdly on the low side for two GPUs? I'd expect closer to the 500W to 600W range...
That's per so for both looking at around 400W.
Yeah, that's where my doubt lies as well, especially when it comes to developer support. It doesn't help that they probably don't have anyone inhouse with deep dual-GPU configurations either. I could be wrong but seems unlikely.
I'd like to get my hands on a few of these to toss in our cluster just to play with. See what they can do.
It says 'Total Board Power' on the bottom, am I confused?
Yep, that slide is just for the B60 and not the Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo. Although I did mention it in the paragraph below it I wasn't as clear as I could've been. Sorry about that.
A lot of media reporting on this is simply including MAXSUN's PR stuff and/or linking to something for Intel but I wanted to include Intel's official spec slide for added info since MAXSUN's didn't give all the details but I do apologize if it made it a little more confusing.
Just to be clear. Intel is developing and has drivers to allow multi gpu function... for COMPUTATIONAL work. meaning for AI and other such work with a rather decent list of supporting vendors. you can actually take 4 of these cards (so 8 GPU's) if you have enough PCIE lanes. (8 each) and have 192GB of vram for your computational loads.
Hence this will be a huge draw to those wanting usable AI systems without dropping HUGE bucks on the nvidia solutions.
I fully expect the entry point for these cards price wise to be 3k.
There has been rumors of AMD, nvidia and Intel have been working on multigpus gaming cards for over a decade. The promise of making multigpus work as one has not yet been fulfilled. I'm not sure why is it so hard as DX12/Vulkan were supposed to make it easier.
I recall rumors of multigpu going into consoles as well, don't see it happening either.
What I do see in the near future are separate shader, RTX and AI (tensor) cores.