Intel Arc Pro B60 can now be rented for €500 per six months
German retailer Zed Up now lets customers rent the Sparkle Intel Arc Pro B60 workstation graphics card for up to six months. The longest option costs €499 for half a year, instead of buying the card outright for around €750 in retail.
Shorter rental periods start at €199 for two weeks (not a great deal), €249 for one month, €299 for two months, and €399 for three months. The offer targets business users and professionals, not gamers.
Price for the Sparkle Arc Pro B60
- 2 weeks 199 euros
- 1 month 249 euros
- 2 months 299 euros
- 3 months 399 euros
- 6 months 499 euros
Source: Zed up
I think the most interesting part of this rental program is that it is actually a physical rental, not remote access to the GPU. The company literally ships the card to you for the agreed period. So if you are developing something that needs lots of memory but can’t justify paying the full price for the GPU, this might solve the problem and you can return the card right after.
The card in question is a Sparkle Arc Pro B60 with Xe2-HPG (BMG-G21) GPU, 24 GB GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, 200 W TGP, and a single 8-pin power connector. It uses a dual-slot blower cooler and offers one DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR13.5 and three DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR10 outputs, connected over PCIe 5.0 x8.
Worth adding that the company is not allowing their cards to be used for cryptomining . I’m not sure how they want to prevent this, but apparently they have a method to measure “ operating times and write cycles ,” which sounds vague. I’m not sure how this would work, as graphics cards do not have built-in timers for such activities.
We recently reported that Arc Pro B60 is set to launch in Europe toward the end of this month, which suggests some partners are already receiving more stock and looking at flexible ways to offer it to workstation customers.
Source: Zed up via PC Games Hardware
