The Santa Clara company has presented the Intel Arc Pro B60 and Intel Arc Pro B50, two new graphics cards for work stations based on the arquitectura Battlemage (Xe2) They are designed to offer a good Price-contention relationship, and that have all the advances we have already seen in the BattleMage series for general consumption.
Both graphics cards have second generation nuclei to accelerate lightning layout, a technology that enjoys increasing popularity in professional scenarios, and They also have XMX matricesspecialized in acceleration of workloads associated with artificial intelligence.
Intel Arc Pro B60 is the most powerful model of the two. Use a complete BMG-G21 GPU, It has 20 second -generation XE nuclei160 XMX matrices, offers a maximum power of 197 Tops an Int8 And use the PCIE GEN5 X8 interface. Its memory bus is 192 bits, it has 24 GB of GDDR6 (bandwidth of 456 GB/s) and a TBP (total consumption) can climb from the 120 watts to 200 watts.
It has twice as much memory that Intel Arc B580, and This gives you an important advantage when executing larger AI modelsas we can see in the attached performance graph, where the Intel Arc Pro B60 is compared with the GeForce RTX 5060 TI of 16 GB and the NVIDIA RTX 2000 ADA of 16 GB.
The difference is big, and having 24 GB of VRM makes it possible to execute models of AI that cannot be accommodated configured graphics cards with 16 GB of graphic memory. In these scenarios the graphic memory represents a great value, of that there is no doubt, and we can say that more is always better.
We now jump to the Intel Arc Pro B50, a cheaper model that is configured with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. This also uses a BMG-G21 GPU, but trimmed, since it has 16 Intel XE2 nuclei. Its memory bus is 128 bits, so its bandwidth is reduced to 224 GB/s, and It offers a maximum power of 170 tops in int8.
This model also uses the PCIE Gen5 X8 interface, has a 70 -watt TBP, which means that You do not need additional feeding connectorand its price will be very affordable, since it will cost 299 dollars. Intel Arc Pro B60 will have a price of $ 499.
Both graphics cards will be available from the third quarter of this year. From that date they can be purchased in equipment of the main OEMS, and in the fourth quarter of 2024 they can be purchased as independent components.
Intel has not forgotten scalability. For those who need higher performance Project Battlematrix, a platform that allows you to connect up to 8 Intel Arc Pro graphics cards in the same systemwhich allows us to add up to 192 GB of VRM and support models with more than 70,000 million parameters.
As a curiosity, Maxsun also presented an Intel Arc Pro B60 with double GPU and 48 GB of graphic memory. This model uses a 16 -pin feed connector, which is capable of supplying up to 600 watts of power.
