ASUS has listed the UGen Arc Pro B70 32GB on its website, making it the company’s first Intel Arc graphics card. ASUS sidelined the Alchemist and Battlemage consumer generations, and its last Intel discrete card was the passively cooled Iris Intel launched the Arc Pro B70 at $949 in March, although US retail listings now appear to be closer to $1,300.
The ASUS card uses the full-featured BMG-G31 “Big Battlemage” chip with 32 Xe2 cores, 256 XMX engines, and 32 GB of GDDR6 ECC memory on a 256-bit bus for 608 GB/s of bandwidth. ASUS rates it at a 2,800MHz boost clock, up to 367 INT8 TOPS, and 290W card power, which is the top of Intel’s 160-290W range for the B70 (the default benchmark is 230W). Cooling comes from a dual-slot fan, and ASUS says four cards can be combined for a combined 128GB of VRAM, enough for models with up to 120 billion settings according to the company. ASUS also joins ASRock, Sparkle and Maxsun, which already have their own B70 models, so price will likely determine the performance of the UGen version.
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