Intel Arc Pro B70 gaming benchmarks
GUNNIR’s 32GB BMG-G31 workstation card averages 36% faster than Arc B580 in games and 46% faster in 3DMark.
Although it has been weeks since Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 GPU, hand-selected reviewers have not been eager to test the new card in games. So far, we have only seen simple tests confirming the expected result: the BMG-G31-based model is faster than BMG-G21. The question was how much faster it actually is.
For the first time, Intel Arc Pro B70 has now received its first full gaming review, giving us the clearest look yet at the BMG-G31 GPU outside workstation and AI workloads. Expreview tested the GUNNIR Intel Arc Pro B70 TF 32G, a 32GB blower-style workstation card based on Intel’s larger Battlemage silicon. Naturally, since this is a blower-style workstation card, it will not perform as well as better-cooled gaming variants could. However, this is the only BMG-G31 card available for testing now, and nothing suggests Intel is currently planning a gaming variant.
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Intel the Arc Pro B70 is a professional and AI use, with 32GB of ECC GDDR6 memory, a 256-bit bus and 608 GB/s of bandwidth. The card also has 32 Xe2 cores, 256 XMX engines, 32 ray tracing units, PCIe 5.0 x16 and a 290W TBP. For comparison, the Arc B580 has 20 Xe2 cores and 12GB memory. It also consumes 190W not 295W like the Pro B70 version.
Gaming tests
The review still gives a useful view of what a gaming BMG-G31 card could have delivered. Compared with the Arc B580, the Arc Pro B70 is 45.8% faster on average across eight 3DMark tests. The lead ranges from 36.4% in Speed Way to 51.7% in Steel Nomad. It also beats the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in seven of those eight synthetic tests.
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| Gaming and Synethtic Perforamnce | ||
|---|---|---|
| Expreview | Arc Pro B70 vs Arc B580 | Arc Pro B70 vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB |
| 3DMark, 8 tests | +45.8% average | +21.6% average |
| 2K raster games, 5 tests | +32.6% average | -6.8% average |
| 2K ray tracing games, 5 tests | +40.2% average | +1.0% average |
| All 2K game tests | +36.4% average | -2.9% average |
Gaming results are more mixed. At 2K resolution in rasterized games, the Arc Pro B70 is 32.6% faster than Arc B580 on average. The largest uplift is seen in Marvel Rivals, where it is 40.8% faster. However, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is faster in four of the five raster tests, with Cyberpunk 2077 being the only win for Arc Pro B70.
Ray tracing performance looks better for Intel. The Arc Pro B70 is 40.2% faster than Arc B580 on average across five RT tests. It also beats the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in F1 25, Doom: The Dark Ages and Cyberpunk 2077. NVIDIA still leads in Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds, which means the RTX 5060 Ti remains faster in most of the full game set.
Arc Pro B70 costs $950, but for gaming it would have to compete in $430 price range
The result shows that BMG-G31 is well ahead of BMG-G21, but not enough to make the Arc Pro B70 a gaming card. If Intel decided to offer an Arc B770, as many gamers expected, it would likely need aggressive pricing below $429, which is the MSRP of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. This may have been much harder to achieve with a larger GPU, a wider memory bus and 16GB of memory.
Source: Expreview
