Today, Intel is officially announcing its Arc Pro B60 & B50 "Battlemage" GPUs, offering superb VRAM capacities for AI & Professional users at a great value.
Intel Battlemage Goes Pro With Arc Pro B60 & B50 GPUs, BMG-G21 Die With 24 & 16 GB VRAM, Tuned For Professional & AI Users
At Computex 2025, Intel is offering a big graphics update for its Arc lineup. The update is that the Blue Team is expanding into new horizons with the Arc Battlemage family, with two brand-new products, the Arc Pro B60 and the Arc Pro B50.
Both of the products are aimed at graphics workstations, inference workloads, and Edge Computing segments.
The two key products within the lineup are the Arc Pro B60 and the Arc Pro B50. So let's take a look at the specifications on offer.
Intel Arc Pro B60 - Full BMG-G21 GPU With 24 GB VRAM
First up, we have the higher-end Intel Arc Pro B60, which features the full BMG-G21 GPU die with 20 2nd Gen Xe cores, 160 XMX engines, and a peak compute output of 197 TOPS (INT8). This solution scales from a TBP of 120W up to 200W and uses a Gen5 x8 PCIe link. The peak TOPS are around 15.5% lower than the Arc B580, which is a more gaming-tuned graphics card and uses a higher TBP (190W).
In terms of memory, the Intel Arc Pro B60 is equipped with 24 GB of VRAM across a 192-bit bus interface, which offers 456 GB/s of total bandwidth. These are the same 19 Gbps GDDR6 dies, but the capacity has been doubled over the Arc B580.
For performance, Intel is putting the Arc Pro B60 against the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and the RTX 2000 Ada 16 GB. The Arc Pro B60 can be seen offering up to 2.7x performance in various AI models & it gets better once larger LLMs are tested, as the 16 GB VRAM is not enough to accommodate those.
Enter Project Battlematrix, Dual Battlemage Cards For Massive LLMs & Up To 192 GB VRAM
But there's more: Intel isn't stopping itself from going big, and to address the memory-scaling problem with larger AI models, the company is introducing Project Battlematrix, an inference workstation platform that enables the use of up to 8 Intel Arc Pro AI GPUs at once.
For this purpose, select Intel partners (such as Maxsun) will be offering an Intel Arc Pro B60 solution with dual GPUs. These are not connected via a PLX chip but act as a separate GPU, each with its own 24 GB of VRAM for a total of 48 GB of VRAM per card.
This enables a total of 8 BMG-G21 GPUs, 192 GB of VRAM, and 1280 XMX engines to power model sizes over 70 B. The platform is optimized around the use of PCIe Gen5 protocols on the Xeon ecosystem. Project Battlematrix will come with an LLM Optimized Linux software stack and feature full-stack validation, making it a potent solution for AI use cases that offers a lot of value to end users.
Intel Arc Pro B50 - Leadership Value & Superb Efficiency With 16 GB VRAM
The shining diamond within the Arc Pro B-series family is the B50. This is a cost-effective solution that packs 16 Xe cores, 128 XMX Engines, and 170 Peak TOPS (INT8). The graphics card has a TBP of 70W and utilizes a PCIe Gen5 x8 interface. VRAM includes 16 GB capacity running across a 128-bit bus interface and 224.0 GB/s of total bandwidth.
The Intel Arc Pro B50 is designed to be energy efficient; as such, it uses a dual-slot and compact form factor. The card is both Linux and Windows Ready and will come with consumer and Pro drivers (ISV Certified).
The reason why the Arc Pro B50 is the first GPU to be highlighted by Intel is due to its incredible value and VRAM offering. The GPU will be priced at an MSRP of $299, which makes it vastly better than the rest of the competition while offering up to 3x the uplift versus the past-generation A50. Intel shares various benchmarks of the Arc Pro B50 against the A50 and the NVIDIA RTX A1000, both of which get destroyed by the Arc Pro B50 in a range of graphics and inference workloads.
With that said, Intel also shared word on its software feature roadmap for the Arc Pro lineup. In Q2, the company plans on offering the baseline Windows & Linux drivers to its partners along with Workstation ISV certifications. This will be followed up with the deployment of the first inference-optimized containers along with further improvements to the GPUs, and finally, in Q4, the company will add Virtualization updates such as SRIOV, VDI, and Manageability.
Pricing & Availability
The Intel Arc Pro B60 and Arc Pro B50 will be available in Q3 of this year, with customer sampling starting now.
The cards will be shipped within systems from leading workstation manufacturers, but we were also told that a DIY launch might happen after the software optimization work is complete around Q4. As for price, the Arc Pro B50 will have an MSRP of $299 US, while the Arc Pro B60 will target the $500 US price point with systems around the $5000 US price range.
Intel Arc Pro B-Series GPUs Specs:
| GPU Name | Architecture / Node | Xe / XMX Cores | Peak TOPS (INT8) | Memory Config | Memory Bandwidth | TBP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arc Pro B70 | BMG-G31 Xe2 / TSMC N5 | 32 / 256 | 367 TOPS | 32 GB / 256-bit | 608 GB/s | 160-290W |
| Arc Pro B65 | BMG-G31 Xe2 / TSMC N5 | 20 / 160 | 197 TOPS | 32 GB / 192-bit | 608 GB/s | 200W |
| Arc Pro B60 (Dual) | BMG-G21 Xe2 / TSMC N5 | 40 / 320 | 394 TOPS | 48 GB / 192-bit | 456 GB/s | 400W |
| Arc Pro B60 | BMG-G21 Xe2 / TSMC N5 | 20 / 160 | 197 TOPS | 24 GB / 192-bit | 456 GB/s | 120-200W |
| Arc Pro B50 | BMG-G21 Xe2 / TSMC N5 | 16 / 128 | 170 TOPS | 16 GB / 128-bit | 224 GB/s | 70W |
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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