Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition 12 GB “Battlemage” Graphics Card Review – A New Mainstream King

Intel Arc Battlemage B580 Limited Edition Unboxing & Closeup

The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition graphics card comes in a special box with blue and purple colors on the outside.

The front cover of the package can be removed to reveal a proper cardboard box within which has a large "Intel Arc" logo.

Inside the package, you will find the graphics card and the accessories within their separate compartments.

The accessories include a tiny Arc toy that can be used as a display along with a few stickers and manuals.

The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition is a very neat and simplistic graphics card which looks great.

After the package is taken care of, I can finally start talking about the card itself. The Arc B580 adopts an all-black color scheme which looks fantastic. Only the logos on the black are colored white.

The graphics card is a compact variant in terms of size and weighs 779 grams. The card measures 272 x 115 mm and takes up 2 slots worth of space for installation.

The cooling shroud extends beyond the PCB and the card being a SFF-compliant design makes it easy to install in almost all cases and even ITX form factors.

The back of the card features a solid backplate a black color tone.

The Arc Limited Edition graphics cards come with their own exclusive fan designs with 11 blades.

Intel also features 0db fan technology on the fans. This feature won’t spin the fans on the card unless they reach a certain threshold.

I am back at talking about the full-coverage backplate that the card uses. The whole plate is made of plastic but it does feel very nice. The brushed matte-black finish on the backplate gives a unique aesthetic. The graphics card also comes with a compact PCB design which means that the shroud, heatsink, and backplate are all extended beyond the PCB. The second fan blows air through the heatsink and blows it out from the cutouts that are situated at the very end of the backplate.

With the outside of the card done, I will now start taking a glance at what's beneath the hood of the graphics cards. The first thing to catch my eye is the large fin stack that's part of the heatsink that this card utilizes.

The large fin stack runs from the front and to the back of the PCB and is so thick that you can barely see through it.

Talking about the heatsink, there are two blocks of aluminum fins that are interconnected by four heat pipes running through the copper base plate and heading out toward the dual heatsink blocks.

There are several heat pads included for the VRMs and memory chips. They are full-sized, making full contact with the components to offer stable and efficient heat transfer. The card is powered by a single 8-pin connector.

I/O on the graphics card sticks with the reference scheme which includes three Display Port 2.1 (UHBR 13.5/10) & a single HDMI 2.1 port. The card also uses a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface.

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