Intel Battlemage Live & Available to order from OcUK

[RSR]

Those results are on a stock CPU / GPU with just XMP set in the BIOS

 

[SuperElectric]

Techspot did a re-review of the B580 with a 5600 at 1440p - as expected the performance dropped off a bit (primarily in CPU-intensive games) - but even with the lesser processor (5600) it still performed well/as expected against it's contemporaries (especially when you see their results using the 5600 dropping also).

From 14% faster to 4% faster than a 4060, that's tough

Still got the VRAM though, so still worth it, I guess?

Intel really need to get going with the B770, or they're going to get left behind quickly.

 

[pangster]

From 14% faster to 4% faster than a 4060, that's tough

Still got the VRAM though, so still worth it, I guess?

Intel really need to get going with the B770, or they're going to get left behind quickly.

Tough? The 4060 is fully matured now and won’t be getting and new features and only maintenance driver upgrades… the above was on a 5600 - so mileage will likely vary based on the CPU you have… I’ve got a 12600k which has around 20-25% better performance than the 5600 - so will be closer to the 14% than the 4% - sorry to disappoint

 

[SuperElectric]

Tough? The 4060 is fully matured now and won’t be getting and new features and only maintenance driver upgrades… the above was on a 5600 - so mileage will likely vary based on the CPU you have… I’ve got a 12600k which has around 20-25% better performance than the 5600 - so will be closer to the 14% than the 4% - sorry to disappoint

I don't think NVIDIA will abandon one of their best selling GPUs before the successor has even been released yet. In fact, their keynote said 4000 series is getting all of the new improvements to DLSS4/Raytracing, and only missing out on MFG.

With the B580's recent price increases, the 4060 is now 15% cheaper, so pretty good deal (other than the 8GB VRAM).

 

[Bidley]

The 4060 is fully matured now and won’t be getting and new features and only maintenance driver upgrades…

Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

 

[pangster]

I don't think NVIDIA will abandon one of their best selling GPUs before the successor has even been released yet. In fact, their keynote said 4000 series is getting all of the new improvements to DLSS4/Raytracing, and only missing out on MFG.

With the B580's recent price increases, the 4060 is now 15% cheaper, so pretty good deal (other than the 8GB VRAM).

the 4000 series are getting a watered down version of DLSS 4 - you're NOT getting the multi-frame generation - you're just getting the rebranded standard nonsense.. sorry to disappoint (you can spin it as "all" of the improvements all you want.. but we really know that MFG is going to be the main selling point of these cards).. there's a good chance the 8GB of VRAM likely would have had a meltdown if it tried to run it in any case - so probably just as well... the best selling nvidia GPU was/is the 3060.. the 4060 like most of the rest of the 4000 series had rather disappointing sales in comparison.. the 4060 in particular was much derided due to its limited VRAM - case in point: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rtx-4060-review/ - people must really be struggling if you're even considering getting an 8GB VRAM card in 2025 - there are better options in that bracket by AMD and Intel..

 

[hornetstinger]

I don't think NVIDIA will abandon one of their best selling GPUs before the successor has even been released yet. In fact, their keynote said 4000 series is getting all of the new improvements to DLSS4/Raytracing, and only missing out on MFG.

With the B580's recent price increases, the 4060 is now 15% cheaper, so pretty good deal (other than the 8GB VRAM).

My 480 is 8gb is 100% vram usage is several games now 1440p so no way would I get 8gb card now.

Unless it was like £100.

 

[pangster]

My 480 is 8gb is 100% vram usage is several games now 1440p so no way would I get 8gb card now.

Unless it was like £100.

Agree anyone looking for a new card in 2025 should strongly discount ANY option that has 8GB VRAM on that basis alone

 

[Mindpick]

Evening all,

Any availability updates?

Ordered on the 17th Dec and patiently waiting for my Sparkle, they seem to be trickling in at a slower pace than the ASRocks...

 

[Freddie1980]

Intel really need to get going with the B770, or they're going to get left behind quickly.

Didn't realise AMD and Nvidia were going to bless us with £250 graphic cards with > 8Gb of vram!

 

[Wildfire142]

I enjoyed the first game but recall performance was all over the place (admittedly I played since the jankiest early access release), hence I didn't play it as much. I always thought it was my GPU. Maybe I should give it another go now that my 7800X3D is lifting the weight, though it would be thoroughly bottlenecked with the current GTX 970.

Have you tried the B580 on the first Space Engineers and how did it perform?

Yep main game I play get ~60 fps on medium/high with some tweaking of the settings.

 

[Wildfire142]

Evening all,

Any availability updates?

Ordered on the 17th Dec and patiently waiting for my Sparkle, they seem to be trickling in at a slower pace than the ASRocks...

I ordered 16th and recieved on the last friday the 10th must have been one of the ones the last one on the most recent batch.

 

[Octoplex7]

From 14% faster to 4% faster than a 4060, that's tough

Still got the VRAM though, so still worth it, I guess?

Intel really need to get going with the B770, or they're going to get left behind quickly.

Hopefully they can fix this with software? Intel were pretty good with their driver updates on the first gen, but I haven't seen anything definitive yet on whether or not this is a hardware issue.

 

[RSR]

Few more from today, as earlier this is completely stock settings.

Heaven - 1080P

Heaven - 1440P