Arc B770 could be even better

Arc B770 could be even better

Hardware Luxx writers put Intel’s Arc Pro B70 through its paces not only in professional workloads but also in games - helped by the fact that Intel released a suitable driver for that purpose.

Power consumption

They began by looking at power draw. In gaming workloads, the new card typically pulls around 210–220 W, which puts it in the same bracket as the RTX 5070.

Game performance varies by title

Gaming performance, however, is not consistently at that level. For example, in Black Myth: Wukong at 1440p, the Intel card lands exactly alongside the Arc B580, despite the B580 using a much less powerful GPU. That result also matches the RTX 4060 Ti, suggesting the driver may be the limiting factor here.

In 3DMark, by contrast, there is no such issue: the Arc Pro B70 outpaces the B580 by 30%, performing on par with the RTX 4070.

In Counter-Strike 2, the new model is again clearly faster than the Arc B580, but it falls well short of the RTX 4070, instead lining up with the RTX 5060. It then swings back in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, where it even moves ahead of the RTX 4070 and goes toe-to-toe with the RTX 5060 Ti. What’s more, enabling ray tracing does not meaningfully change the picture: Intel’s newcomer remains strong, although the RTX 4070 edges in front.

In the very demanding Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, the new model is once more only slightly quicker than the Arc B580. In Lords of the Fallen, though, it manages to beat even the RTX 4070 Super and come close to the RTX 4070 Ti Super. In The Last of Us Part I, the newcomer trails the RTX 4070 but stays ahead of the RTX 5060 Ti. Meanwhile, in Alan Wake 2 it barely competes with the RTX 5050 - although once ray tracing is enabled, the new Intel card becomes much stronger relative to its rivals.

What this suggests about a gaming Arc B770

Unfortunately, it is hard to draw a single clear conclusion. It appears there are optimisation issues in certain games, and in those cases the Arc Pro B70 - even with its full 32 GB of memory - only narrowly beats the Arc B580. When that limitation is not present, Intel’s new card can perform at the level of the RTX 4070, and sometimes even above it. Naturally, few people are likely to buy a US$1,000 professional card purely for gaming, but these results help illustrate the potential of a gaming-focused Arc B770 if it does appear. And in that scenario, it should not face the same optimisation problems to any significant degree.