The Arc Pro B50 and B60 aim squarely at workstation workloads, dangling absurdly large piles of VRAM to lure buyers away from Nvidia and AMD.
The Arc Pro B50 is a slim dual-slot number built for compact graphics workstations. It has16 Xe cores, 128 XMX engines, and 16GB of VRAM for a reasonable $299 (about €275). It runs entirely off the motherboard with a 70W power budget and no external power connector, which might appeal to SFF nerds trying to avoid the usual spaghetti.
The big lad in the lineup is the Arc Pro B60. This one’s got 20 Xe cores, 160 XMX engines, and 24GB of VRAM with a 456 GB/s memory pipe. It clocks in with 197 peak TOPS and draws between 120 and 200W. Intel says it’ll cost around $500 (about €460), though it’ll mostly appear in full fat 'Project Battlematrix' systems priced anywhere between $5,000 and $10,000.
To shift these things, Intel is leaning on board partners. Maxsun, ASRock, Sparkle and a few lesser-known names like GUNNR and Senao are helping with custom designs, including a bonkers dual-GPU Maxsun card with 48GB of GDDR6. That one’s clearly aimed at the deep-pocketed end of the AI inferencing racket.
Both cards use PCIe 5.0 x8, which Intel reckons gives them a transfer edge in certain workloads. The B50’s 16GB already trumps competitors stuck on 6 or 8GB, and Chipzilla claims performance gains up to 2.6 times over the usual gaming drivers. Benchmarks showed boosts of up to 3.4 times over the older A50 and decent swings against Nvidia’s RTX A1000, although, as always, vendor benchmarks are about as trustworthy as crypto currency forecasts.
Official launch is pencilled in for Q3 2025. Chipzilla admits it’s still working on software polish, with SRIOV, VDI and remote management features arriving sometime in Q4.
Arc Pro B50 specs
- GPU cores: 16 Xe cores, 128 XMX engines
- VRAM: 16GB, 224 GB/s
- Interface: PCIe 5.0 x8
- Power: 70W, no external connector
- Performance: 170 peak TOPS
- Price: $299 (about €275)
- Arc Pro B60 specs
- GPU cores: 20 Xe cores, 160 XMX engines
- VRAM: 24GB, 456 GB/s
- Interface: PCIe 5.0 x8
- Power: 120–200W
- Performance: 197 peak TOPS
- Price: ~$500 (about €460), bundled in systems
Now all Chipzilla needs is a few years of driver updates and a miracle or two to claw market share from the green and red teams.
