Sparkle Arc Pro B50 16GB brings Battlemage Pro GPU to single-slot systems
Sparkle has introduced a new Intel Arc Pro B50 graphics card with a single-slot blower cooler. The card is listed as the “SPARKLE Intel Arc Pro B50 16GB Blower (SBP50W-16G)”. The design targets AI workstations and multi-GPU systems. Sparkle uses a radial fan cooler that exhausts heat out of the chassis. The card is 21.5 mm thick, so it’s a single PCIe slot.
According to Sparkle’s specification sheet, the card has 16 Xe cores, 16 ray tracing units and 128 XMX engines. The GPU clock is listed at 2600 MHz, while AI performance is rated at 170 INT8 TOPS. It also includes 16GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, with 224 GB/s of bandwidth and 14 Gbps memory speed.
Source: Sparkle
The card uses a PCIe 5.0 x16 interface and does not require an external power connector. Sparkle lists total board power at 72W, slightly above Intel’s 70W reference value for Arc Pro B50. Display output includes four DisplayPort 2.1 connectors with support for up to 7680×4320 at 60 Hz.
Sparkle also mentions Linux multi-GPU LLM support and certified drivers for AI, design, engineering and media workloads. The card supports OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Adaptive Sync, AV1 encode and decode, and VP9 bitstream decoding. The card measures 242 × 142 × 21.5 mm and weighs 500 grams.
Intel Arc Pro B50 is officially priced at launch at $349, but Sparkle’s model uses a different board. The company has not confirmed the exact pricing for this model.
Source: Sparkle
