Overview
- Intel's Arc Pro B70, which launched Wednesday, is available at $949 through Intel and add‑in card partners including ARKN, ASRock, Gunnir, Maxsun, and Sparkle, with the Arc Pro B65 slated for mid‑April.
- The flagship B70 offers 32 Xe2 cores, 256 XMX AI engines, 32GB of 19 Gbps GDDR6 on a 256‑bit bus for 608 GB/s, and up to 367 INT8 TOPS, while the B65 keeps 32GB but drops to 20 cores and up to 197 INT8 TOPS.
- Intel's own tests claim larger context windows than Nvidia's RTX Pro 4000, including 93K tokens on Llama 3.1 8B versus 42K on the Nvidia card, plus faster multi‑user throughput and up to 2x tokens per dollar.
- The cards target local AI inference with Linux and Windows support, oneAPI and XMX acceleration, ISV‑certified pro drivers, and multi‑GPU scaling that Intel says enables bigger models and longer prompts on 2‑ and 4‑GPU rigs.
- Tom's Hardware notes Nvidia's broader CUDA ecosystem and wider low‑precision formats could change real‑world results, so Intel's performance claims should be treated as vendor data until independent tests confirm them.