The Odyssey B580 boasts twin fans, a substantial heatsink, and a backplate with an open design for better handling of exhaust airflow. At a 2670 MHz core clock, this card sticks to Intel's stock specs, but you can try your hand at overclocking for extra performance.
Most importantly for many builders right now, the B580 features 12GB of VRAM, so modern games won't stumble on this card, even at higher quality settings.
Intel's Arc B580 graphics card remains a solid budget contender for 1080p and even 1440p gaming, and this is the cheapest we've ever seen one go for. Get a solid budget gaming upgrade while it lasts.
In our recent testing, the Arc B580 holds a slight edge over the GeForce RTX 5050 with our full suite of raster and ray-traced gaming tests at 1080p. Its performance really shines in 1440p raster gaming, as its 12GB of VRAM lets it maintain relatively high performance levels even as 8GB cards start to struggle.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Buying an Arc card grants you access to Intel's XeSS family of upscaling and framegen technologies so you can further balance performance and image quality to taste, especially for 1440p gaming where the B580 has an edge over other cards in this price range.
If you've been waiting for a cheap B580, act now, as discounts this deep on this higher-end Battlemage card are extremely rare.
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