Intel’s 32GB Arc Pro B70 Gets Tested In Games, And It’s Weirdly Close To RTX 5060 Ti
Intel’s gaming GPU story has been a bit sakit hati lately. Arc is still around, drivers have improved a lot, but the big “where is the proper flagship?” question never really goes away. Now, the Arc Pro B70 workstation card has been tested in games, and the results are interesting enough to make PC hardware kaki in Malaysia pay attention.
The Arc Pro B70 is not meant to be a gaming card. It is Intel’s top Battlemage-based workstation GPU right now, built more for AI and professional workloads than Valorant, Cyberpunk, or F1. The big headline spec is 32GB of ECC GDDR6 VRAM, which is massive compared with normal midrange gaming GPUs.
But Expreview tested it across five games at 1440p anyway, and according to Tom’s Hardware, the B70 performed surprisingly well.
In normal raster gaming, the Arc Pro B70 was around 32.5% faster on average than Intel’s Arc B580, which remains Intel’s strongest gaming-focused GPU. Against Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, though, the B70 was still about 6.8% slower overall in those raster tests.
Cyberpunk 2077 was the funny outlier. Despite Cyberpunk usually favouring Nvidia hardware, the B70 reportedly scored 90 FPS versus 68 FPS on the RTX 5060 Ti. That is the kind of result that makes Arc fans go, “bro, imagine if Intel actually tuned this properly for gaming.”
Ray tracing made the Intel card look even better. In RT tests, the Arc Pro B70 averaged 1% ahead of the RTX 5060 Ti and beat it in three out of five titles. Compared with the Arc B580, the B70 was about 40% faster. F1 2025 gave the B70 its biggest win, with 14% higher FPS than the RTX 5060 Ti.
Once all raster and ray tracing results were combined, Nvidia still held a tiny lead: the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB ended up 2.9% ahead overall. For a workstation GPU running Intel’s Pro driver instead of the regular gaming Arc driver, that is actually not bad at all.
The more practical side is AI performance. In MLPerf Client, the Arc Pro B70 delivered 95.5 tokens per second, compared with 73.7 tokens per second on the RTX 5060 Ti. Its time-to-first-token result was also more than four times faster, helped heavily by that huge 32GB memory pool. That matters if you are the type of Malaysian PC builder experimenting with local AI models, not just gaming on weekends.
Still, don’t rush to Shopee and start dreaming of this as your next gaming GPU. The Arc Pro B70 is listed at US$949, which is roughly RM4.5k before local taxes, shipping, and seller markup. At that money, gamers are better off looking at proper gaming cards, including used high-end options depending on the local market.
The real takeaway is not “buy the B70 for gaming.” It is that Intel’s bigger Battlemage silicon clearly has potential. If Intel had turned this into a proper Arc B770-style gaming GPU with less VRAM, a lower price, and stronger game drivers, it could have been a very spicy midrange challenger.
For SEA gamers, more GPU competition is always good news. Nvidia pricing is still painful, AMD availability can be uneven depending on the model, and Intel becoming serious in the RM1.5k to RM2.5k zone would help a lot. But for now, the Arc B580 remains Intel’s main gaming card, while the B70 is a fascinating “what could have been” moment.
Source: Tom's Hardware
