Only $90 cheaper than Arc Pro B70
ASRock’s Arc Pro B65 Creator has finally appeared in US retail. Newegg lists the B65 CT 32G model at $909.99 with stock sold and shipped by Newegg. This comes almost 12 weeks after Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 and B65 on March 25. Intel said the B65 would be available through AIB partners in mid-April, while the B70 was available from launch day with Intel-branded and partner cards.
The ASRock card uses Intel’s Arc Pro B65 GPU with 20 Xe2 cores and 160 XMX engines. This SKU shares the memory specs with higher-end B70 at 32GB GDDR6. Worth noting that Newegg still lists 192-bit memory bus for B65 which is incorrect.
Source: Newegg
Price does not make much sense
At $909.99, the B65 is only $90 cheaper than ASRock’s Arc Pro B70 Creator, which Newegg lists from $999.99. The B70 has 32 Xe cores and 256 XMX engines, while keeping the same 32GB memory capacity. One gets 37.5% fewer GPU cores at 9% lower price.
The B65 also sits much closer to the B70 than to the B60. Newegg lists ASRock’s Arc Pro B60 24GB at $659.99, which makes the B65 $250 more expensive despite the same 20 Xe core and 160 XMX engine count. Yes, B60 has the same core count as B65.
Source: Newegg
