Arc Pro B60 soon coming to DIY market in Europe
We have been tipped off by one of our readers about the upcoming launch of Intel Arc Pro B60 in Europe.
Although the Arc Pro B60 was the first Battlemage workstation model to launch, it was only for OEM/SI customers, and Intel would not confirm its launch to the DIY market for a long time. Later, Intel officially announced that a cut-down variant called Pro B50 would be available at $349 starting in early September. Meanwhile, the B60 did not receive any official DIY market launch.
Source: ProShop (Germany)
We have been provided links to several retailers in Europe that all agree that the launch of the Pro B60 will be in the middle to end of November. Prices range from €769 to €1,025 from what we gathered . The cheapest model is from Sparkle, whose blower design will be released at the end of November by ProShop (who have several regional sites).
Source: Morele (Poland), X-Kom (Poland)
Price-wise, the card would sit somewhere between the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti if we use gaming cards for comparison. In the workstation market, there is not much to compare at this price. The NVIDIA RTX 4000 (24 GB memory) costs nearly twice as much, and Radeon AI R9700 costs $1,299 officially but has a larger 32 GB memory capacity. AMD never launched cheaper RDNA4 card for workstations, perhaps now they have a reason to?
| Intel Arc PRO Battlemage Specs | ||
|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz | Intel Arc Pro B60 GPU | Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU |
| Picture (Reference) |  |  |
| GPU Peak TOPS (Int8) | 197 TOPS | 170 TOPS |
| Peak FP32 Throughput | Up to 12.28 TFLOPS | Up to 10.65 TFLOPS |
| X-cores | 20 Xe²-HPG | 16 Xe²-HPG |
| XMX AI Engines | 160 | 128 |
| Ray Tracing (RT) Units | 20 | 16 |
| PCIe Support | Gen 5.0 x16 (x8 Electrical) | Gen 5.0 x16 (x8 Electrical) |
| Dedicated Memory | 24GB of GDDR6 | 16GB of GDDR6 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 456 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
| Memory Interface | 192-bit | 128-bit |
Source: VideoCardz
