GoKawiilIt's been almost two years since the BMG-G31 silicon first showed up in the rumor mill, pointing toward a highly capable Battlemage GPU that could solidify Intel's position among the best graphics cards. While the company's gaming ambitions have significantly slowed down since then, the BMG-G31 now powers the new Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU, which has just been tested by Expreview with a solid showing in games.
Across five titles at 1440p resolution, the B70 was about 32.5% faster on average than the Arc B580, but about 6.8% slower than the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. While it lost against the Green Team in the other four games, the B70 actually saw 14% higher FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 (which generally favors Nvidia GPUs), netting 90 FPS against the 5060 Ti's 68 FPS.
Swipe to scroll horizontally 1440p Raster Performance - FPS Game Arc Pro B70 32GB RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Arc B580 12GB Cyberpunk 2077 90.27 79.06 66.02 Monster Hunter Wilds 51.33 56.53 39.23 Marvel Rivals 69.00 74.00 49.00 Assassin's Creed Shadows 49.00 58.00 42.00 Black Myth: Wukong 44.00 53.00 32.00
Switching to ray tracing performance, the Arc Pro B70 expectedly looks a lot better, pushing 1% more frames than the RTX 5060 Ti on average, beating it in three of the five titles. Against the Arc B580, the workstation offering is about 40% faster. F1 2025 sees the biggest win for the B70 where it gets 14% more FPS compared to the 5060 Ti. Across all games in both raster and RT, however, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is still 2.9% ahead of the B70 — that's mighty close for a GPU not even meant for gaming.
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Swipe to scroll horizontally 1440p Ray Tracing Performance - FPS Game Arc Pro B70 32GB RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Arc B580 12GB F1 25 58.00 51.00 35.00 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II 62.29 56.19 42.92 Cyberpunk 2077 35.05 33.90 25.12 Assassin's Creed Shadows 37.00 40.00 30.00 Monster Hunter Wilds 43.10 51.14 33.87
As a reminder, the Arc Pro B70 is Intel's top-end Battlemage offering at the moment, while the Arc B580 remains its flagship gaming-focused GPU. The B70 features a whopping 32GB of (ECC) GDDR6 VRAM, so it has an inherent advantage over pretty much any gaming GPU. There's a software disadvantage, however, with the Arc Pro B70 using Intel's Pro driver as opposed to its gaming-focused Arc driver.
As such, in MLPerf Client, the Arc Pro B70 had a token throughput of 95.5 tokens per second, compared to just 73.7 tok/s on the RTX 5060 Ti. When it comes to TTFT (time to first token), the B70 absolutely annihilated the Nvidia GPU by being more than 4 times as fast thanks to its bigger memory pool. The Arc Pro B580, which has only 12GB of VRAM, was also about 64.52% faster here compared to the 5060 Ti.
Swipe to scroll horizontally MLPerf Client - Tokens Per Second (Windows ML) Model Arc Pro B70 32GB RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Arc B580 12GB Llama 3.1 8B 95.5 73.7 76.6 Phi4 Reasoning 14B 55.3 39.7 43.7
Swipe to scroll horizontally MLPerf Client - TTFS (Windows ML) Model Arc Pro B70 32GB RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Arc B580 12GB Llama 3.1 8B 0.07ms 0.31ms 0.11ms Phi 4 Reasoning 14B 0.15ms 0.51ms 0.23ms
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