May 19, at the Computex Taipei International Computer Show, Intel announced two graphics cards, the Arc Pro B50 and the Arc Pro B60. The starting price is only $299 USD (approximately RMB 2156).
Intel official website
In terms of pricing, the Arc Pro B50 with 16GB of VRAM is priced at $299 USD (approximately RMB 2156); the Arc Pro B60 with 24GB of VRAM is priced at $500 USD (approximately RMB 3605).
In terms of performance, the B50 is designed for workstations and features a dual-slot design with 16 Xe cores and 128 XMX engines, providing up to 170 TOPS of peak computing power, equipped with 16GB of VRAM, a memory bandwidth of 224GB/s, a typical motherboard power consumption of 70W, and supports PCIe 5.0 x8 connections. In terms of graphical workloads, Intel claims its performance is up to 3.4 times faster than the previous generation A50, and it surpasses NVIDIA's RTX A1000 8GB in a series of AI inference test benchmarks such as MLPerf.
In general performance, the Intel Arc Pro B50 outperforms the previous generation by 50%-130%. Its cost-effectiveness not only doubles compared to the Intel Arc Pro A50 and NVIDIA's RTX A1000, but also slightly outperforms the Intel Arc Pro A60.
Intel official website
The B60, on the other hand, is mainly aimed at AI inference workstations, featuring 20 Xe cores and 160 XMX engines, with a peak TOPS of 197, equipped with 24GB of VRAM, a memory bandwidth of 456GB/s, a typical motherboard power consumption of 120~200W adjustable, and also supports PCIe 5.0 x8 interface.
According to Intel's released test results, compared to NVIDIA's RTX Ada 2000 16GB and RTX 5060Ti 16GB, Intel's Arc Pro B60 can handle larger-scale AI model inference operations, including DeepSeek-R1, Microsoft Phi 4, Alibaba Qwen 2.5, or Meta Llama 3, with an execution efficiency improvement of up to 2.7 times.
Intel official website
In addition, Intel launched a workstation plan called "Project Battlematrix," which will preinstall the Arc Pro B60 into inference workstations to create a unified workstation. This workstation uses Intel Xeon processors, can be equipped with up to 8 GPUs, 192GB of VRAM, and supports deploying models with over 70 billion parameters. The overall price ranges from $5000 to $10000 USD (approximately RMB 36,000 to 72,000).
Intel official website
Vivian Lien, Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Client Graphics Business, stated: "The Intel Arc Pro B series demonstrates Intel's commitment to GPU technology and ecosystem partnerships. With the advanced features of the Xe2 architecture and the growing software ecosystem, the new Arc Pro GPUs provide accessibility and scalability for small and medium-sized businesses seeking precise solutions."
Intel stated that the two graphics cards have already been sampled to customers and are expected to launch in the third quarter this year, with support for hardware sharing (SRIOV), cloud desktops (VDI), and management software functions to be added in the fourth quarter.
In addition, Intel's partners have also introduced numerous solutions, including ASRock, Agile, Maxsun, Huan Yu, Auscre Technology, Senao, and Lanner among several Intel AICs, which will release custom versions of the B60, offering a rich range of cooling designs from passive to turbo to standard axial fans, with power consumption ranging between 120~200W.
Among them, according to EXP review, Maxsun will release the Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo graphics card, featuring a dual-GPU design, equipped with 48GB of GDDR6 VRAM.
Previously, on April 25, Intel released its first-quarter financial report for 2025. The report showed that Intel's first-quarter revenue was $12.7 billion USD (approximately RMB 91.6 billion), unchanged from the same period last year; net loss was $800 million USD (approximately RMB 5.7 billion), expanding by 115% compared to the net loss of $400 million USD (approximately RMB 2.9 billion) in the same period last year. At the same time, Intel's outlook for the second quarter was weak, expecting revenue of $11.2 to $12.4 billion USD (approximately RMB 80.8 billion to 89.5 billion).
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