Intel has officially launched the "Arc Pro B70." It's the most powerful discrete GPU to date, which is priced at $949 and aimed squarely at professionals working in local AI inference, machine learning, and high-end workstation graphics. This was revealed on March 25, 2026, at Intel's Pro Day 2026 event in New York. The Arc Pro B70 is the first product to use Intel's full Big Battlemage GPU, which is a chip based on the larger BMG-G31 die, built on TSMC's N5 process node.
This card features 32 Xe2-HPG cores, 256 XMX engines, 32GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256-bit bus, up to 367 peak INT8 TOPS for AI workloads, and a memory bandwidth of 608 GB/s. This makes it a formidable option for running large language models locally at a sub-$1,000 price point. Speaking of comparisons, NVIDIA's RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell, offers only 24GB of VRAM and retails for around $1,800, giving the Arc Pro B70 a clear value advantage for memory-intensive tasks.
So, Intel positions the B70 as capable of delivering up to 2.2x larger context windows, 85% higher token throughput in multi-user workloads, and 6.2x faster time-to-first-token compared to NVIDIA's offering in selected benchmarks. This GPU also supports PCIe Gen 5, SRIOV, four DisplayPort 2.1 outputs, ECC memory, and multi-GPU scaling.
The "Arc Pro B70" was announced and launched on March 25, 2026, during Intel's dedicated "Pro Day 2026" event, which was held in New York. The smaller companion GPU, the "Arc Pro B65," was announced at the same event but is scheduled to arrive in mid-April 2026 exclusively through third-party board partners.
The B70 is based on Intel's BMG-G31 GPU, the larger die in the second-generation Battlemage architecture (Xe2-HPG), which is built on TSMC's 5nm process node. Previous Arc Pro B-series cards used the smaller BMG-G21 chip. The full BMG-G31 configuration in the B70 includes 32 Xe2 cores, 256 XMX AI engines, and 32 dedicated ray-tracing units. This reveals that this chip was originally developed with gaming in mind, before Intel pivoted it to professional and AI markets.
The Intel-branded "Arc Pro B70" reference card is now available for $949 dollars. AIB versions, with varying cooler designs, power connectors, and TDP configurations, are available from ARKN, ASRock, Gunnir, Maxsun, Sparkle, Senao, Lanner, and Onix. The Intel-branded card uses a single 16-pin power connector and draws 230W. The "Arc Pro B65" will be available exclusively through AIBs starting mid-April at a price lower than the B70.
The arrival of the Intel Arc Pro B70 is very important for several reasons. First, it confirms that Intel's "Big Battlemage silicon" will not be coming to the gaming GPU market anytime soon (at least not in this form). Second, the pricing undercuts AMD's "Radeon AI Pro R9700," which is priced at $1,299 with 32GB VRAM, and dramatically undercuts "NVIDIA's RTX Pro 4000." This potentially makes the B70 most cost-efficient option for professionals running LLM inference locally.
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