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Intel's Arc B580 graphics cards have been its best-reviewed to date, maintaining the aggressive pricing of the old A-series Arc cards with fewer driver bugs, fewer weird performance outliers, and fewer caveats all around.

The Intel Arc B570 is the kind of graphics card I desperately want to love, but my tech-addled PC gaming heart belongs to another. But the problem is that despite some impressive specs for a card this cheap,

It would be so much easier to recommend the Intel Arc B570 if it was a $199 card, rather than $219. At that price, it’d be 20% cheaper and a much better deal than the B580. Instead, when it comes to a pure value perspective, it’s a wash between the two graphics cards, but you’re going to feel the difference in more demanding PC games.

Leaning hard on the cost-effective 1440p GPU for gamers, the ARC B570 has a high bar to reach to beat out other, more established GPUs in its target demographic.

Intel's Arc B570 is a scaled-down version of the B580. But with reduced cores, clock speed, VRAM, and bandwidth, it offers less for only a 12%

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The Arc B580 launched at $249, and it quickly sold out. Meanwhile, the Arc B570 has a recommended list price (MSRP) of $219, which is exactly 12% cheaper. If we go by that Geekbench score, the card being 12% slower for 12% less adds up beautifully, and it’s a testament to Intel’s care for delivering value for the money.

While it provides solid 1080p performance, the Intel Arc B570 isn’t as attractive when you can spend $30 more and get the much-better B580, especially for demanding AAA games.