With limited reviews available, you will hardly hear about the Arc Pro B70's performance. Here's a sneak peek into the analysis by Hardware Luxx.
Hardware Luxx Intel Arc Pro B70 Review Reveals GPU's Performance Against Its Competitors
Intel's flagship workstation Big Battlemage GPUs were released roughly two weeks ago, but since then, we have hardly seen any reviews for the Arc Pro B65 and the Arc Pro B70. It appears that the GPUs don't have good availability, and similar to what we heard about the Arc Pro B60 last year, both the newer GPUs may not be that abundant in the market. The Arc Pro B65 and Arc Pro B70 were released for professional and AI workloads due to bringing a higher memory capacity and a more powerful GPU than the Arc Pro B50 and B60.
As of now, we have only seen Intel's own benchmarks, which put the Arc Pro B70 above the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 in select workloads. As far as independent reviews are concerned, we have one from Hardware Luxx, a popular German tech website, which got their hands on not one or two, but four Arc Pro B70 GPUs. With so many GPUs in hand, they were able to test out the capabilities of the quad-GPU configuration.
As far as the AI workloads are concerned, the Arc Pro B70 is around 30%-40% faster than B50 in Geekbench AI, and trades blows with Radeon Pro W7900 in some tests. This is particularly impressive, seeing the Arc Pro B70 consumes significantly less power when compared to Radeon Pro W7800 and W7900 GPUs. The Arc Pro B70 reportedly consumes around 180W under full load, and two of those consume twice the power. This shows an equal distribution of power across the cards, and the same is reflected when a quad-GPU setup is deployed.
The quad-GPU setup reportedly consumes around 720W of power, which is still lower than the max TDP rating for the GPU. Arc Pro B70 reference edition is officially rated at 230W, but as per Hardware Luxx's testing, the GPU could only reach up to 180W in Inference workloads. That said, the Arc Pro B70 appears to be a solid card for AI workloads and offers decent specifications for these jobs. The GPU brings a BMG-G31 die with 32 Xe cores, 32 GB GDDR6 memory through a 256-bit memory bus, and a full PCIe 5.0 x16 interface.
News Source: Hardware Luxx
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