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Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 With 32GB GDDR6 Video Memory

([Intel] 3 Hours Ago Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70)


Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional "big Battlemage" [1]BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc Pro B65.

Intel finally announced the Arc Pro B70 and B65 discrete GPUs as their newest professional graphics products. Sadly, for consumers, no non-Pro [2]BMG-G31 is announced. The Arc Pro B70 with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory is focused on AI inference workloads, content creation, and other professional workloads.

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Intel is promoting the Arc Pro B70 as up to 2.2x larger context windows than the competition, up to 6.2x faster responses for multi-agent/multi-user workloads, and up to 2x the tokens per dollar performance over the competition.

The Arc Pro B70 discrete graphics card is available starting today as an Intel branded card and through AIB partners. The Arc Pro B70 has a suggested starting price of $949 USD. The Intel Arc Pro B70 has a 230 Watt board power rating.

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The Arc Pro B65 model will be available in mid-April.

That's all for now, hopefully we'll find our hands on the new Intel hardware soon for Linux support and performance benchmarking.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/BMG-G31

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/BMG-G31

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=arc_pro_b70_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=arc_pro_b65_lrg


A sheet of paper crossed my desk the other day and as I read it,
realization of a basic truth came over me. So simple! So obvious we couldn't
see it. John Knivlen, Chairman of Polamar Repeater Club, an amateur radio
group, had discovered how IC circuits work. He says that smoke is the thing
that makes ICs work because every time you let the smoke out of an IC circuit,
it stops working. He claims to have verified this with thorough testing.
I was flabbergasted! Of course! Smoke makes all things electrical
work. Remember the last time smoke escaped from your Lucas voltage regulator
Didn't it quit working? I sat and smiled like an idiot as more of the truth
dawned. It's the wiring harness that carries the smoke from one device to
another in your Mini, MG or Jag. And when the harness springs a leak, it lets
the smoke out of everything at once, and then nothing works. The starter
motor requires large quantities of smoke to operate properly, and that's why
the wire going to it is so large.
Feeling very smug, I continued to expand my hypothesis. Why are Lucas
electronics more likely to leak than say Bosch? Hmmm... Aha!!! Lucas is
British, and all things British leak! British convertible tops leak water,
British engines leak oil, British displacer units leak hydrostatic fluid, and
I might add Brititsh tires leak air, and the British defense unit leaks
secrets... so naturally British electronics leak smoke.
-- Jack Banton, PCC Automotive Electrical School

[Ummm ... IC circuits? Integrated circuit circuits?]