Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition3. Testing Methodology4. Alan Wake II5. Black Myth: Wukong6. Cyberpunk 20777. Final Fantasy XVI8. Forza Horizon 59. Ghost of Tsushima10. Horizon Forbidden West11. The Last of Us Part 112. A Plague Tale: Requiem13. Senua's Saga: Hellblade 214. Starfield15. Total War: Warhammer III16. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)17. Cost Per Frame Analysis18. Ray Tracing: Alan Wake II19. Ray Tracing: Black Myth: Wukong20. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207721. Ray Tracing: F1 2422. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart23. Ray Tracing: Returnal24. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider25. Ray Tracing: Star Wars Outlaws26. Ray Tracing Performance Summary27. Clock Speed28. GPU Temperatures29. Acoustics30. Power Draw: 1080p31. Power Draw: 1440p32. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)33. Performance per Watt: 1080p34. Performance per Watt: 1440p35. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)36. Total System Power Draw37. Closing Thoughts38. View All Pages

Ghost of Tsushima is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The player controls Jin Sakai, a samurai on a quest to protect Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan.Ghost of Tsushima was released for the PlayStation 4 in July 2020, and an expanded version for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, subtitled Director's Cut and featuring the Iki Island expansion, was released in August 2021. A Windows version of Director's Cut, developed by Nixxes Software, was released in May 2024. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Sucker Punch in-house engine. We test using the Very High preset, DX12 API.

Ghost of Tsushima is arguably the most impressive example of the B580's gaming prowess that we will see today. Despite initially offering very poor frametimes, a new driver that arrived earlier this week ironed out the issues and, with an average of 76fps, the B580 is even 14% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, while it thumps the 4060 by a 39% margin!

Up at 1440p, that lead stretches to 43% versus the 4060 – and remember that Nvidia GPU is $40-50 more expensive. Versus the A750, we're looking at a 27% uplift gen-on-gen.

Just to demonstrate the improvement to frame times made by the newer driver, here I've compared the original data (6249) with the updated 6251 driver performance. As you can see, there were frequent spikes up to nearly 100ms (!) with the former driver, but the newer one does away with them almost entirely. I say ‘almost' as you can still see some tiny frame time jumps at similar intervals even with the 6251 driver, but they weren't noticeable during gameplay.

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