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Intel Battlemage Live & Available to order from OcUK
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6700XT if you can find one on this mythical deal that I've never seen
You mean the dozens of RX6700XT/RX6750XT deals since last year? Even OcUK had them at one point for £300. Plenty of people on here got them.
The RX7700XT and RX6800 even dropped down to just over £300 in October for a bit.
You really need to use the deal sites and shop around. I am quite happy to screenshot the deals, if you think they are mythical.
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"Last year" "12 months" and "£300"
So not recently, not "sub £300" and equally not the £250 budget of the other poster (or indeed myself when I wanted to buy a GPU a couple of weeks ago)
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Not bad, but could have been better
It's presumably not bad if you are elsewhere in the world where a 4060 is apparently still $300 and the B580 is $249.
not looked at all the charts but in cyberpunk and RDR2 its outperforming the 4060 ti at 1080p and 1440p
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that is some good goingHi there
We have shipped the first 50 today, there is still around 150 pre-orders to go and were expecting 200 more end of next week on the Intel branded card.
it will be interesting to see if they bring out a bigger brother
And in most other games it's soundly beaten by a 4060ti as you'd expect.
Bit of a wing and a prayer at those prices imo.
However, if that's the pp for a build, I get it, but would push the extra £26.52 and get a 6750XT in the post tomorrow-drivers are bulletproof in comparison and no one's turning RT'ing above the default low at this point on the two games that require it.
NV and AMD could just squash it with a discount/free game if they wanted to tbh.
However, if that's the pp for a build, I get it, but would push the extra £26.52 and get a 6750XT in the post tomorrow-drivers are bulletproof in comparison and no one's turning RT'ing above the default low at this point on the two games that require it.
NV and AMD could just squash it with a discount/free game if they wanted to tbh.
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From what I've seen they seem fine, although the occasional one crops up with issues.
Digital Foundry review starting at 16:48 briefly covers it, AC Unity works just fine now but unfortunately CoD Infinite Warefare still completly failed.
The digital foundry video above shows it taking 20 minutes to compile shaders then crashes when loading Cod Infinite Warfare
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They describe the B580 as a "Dream Product" and Impressive at 17:42.
Steady On!
Not seen them make so much praise for a product for a while.
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The price versus the lack of reputation with drivers makes this one an uncertain one imo. If they just went balls to the wall with pricing it would have been great, currently it just sits as a good buy at this exact moment in time. As mentioned, any AMD price cuts come January with the new line announcements will make the B580 just another one to forget about.
It's great to see these good reviews, but i'm not running out to buy one, and i was mulling it over. Those rx6800 look far more tempting to invest in.
It's great to see these good reviews, but i'm not running out to buy one, and i was mulling it over. Those rx6800 look far more tempting to invest in.
Not sure why the video reviewers are going wild for this - it's 5% better than a 4060 (and in the UK is still the same price)
Intel Arc B580 Review - Excellent Value
The next-generation Intel Arc graphics cards are here! The B580, powered by the Battlemage architecture, is priced at a highly competitive $250. Testing in our review confirms that Intel's new card outperforms both NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD's RX 7600, and it now supports frame generation...www.techpowerup.com
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7% average in Techspot's review
Intel Arc B580 Review: Best Value GPU
PC gaming gets a boost with Intel's Arc B580, a $250 GPU that beats the RTX 4060 and RX 7600. Featuring 12GB VRAM, Xe2 architecture, and built...www.techspot.com
Because of them over hyping anything and everything Nvidia has done over the last two decades they now feel like they need to over hype Intel to redress the now total market domination they caused, you know.... by doing the same thing.....
The most hilarious thing was Steve Walton, he said because of the B580 the 4060 now needs to be $200, $50 cheaper... for an Nvidia GPU of the same performance, why? Are Nvidia suddenly AMD to Intel? Lunatic...
Having said that for the same money as the 4060 its not terrible, if these tech jurnoes had any intelligence they would say it needs to be $200 or less, unfortunately they don't have any intelligence so they keep trying to convince people to buy over priced GPU's, first Nvidia and now also Intel, they are part of the problem.
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If you haven't learned by now that these tech jurnoes don't care about the market, who dominates it and its health as a result, all they care about is the money they get from these companies for over hyping their over priced garbage, the sooner we all realise that the better.
The fact that Steve said the 4060 should be 20% cheaper than the B580 just proves they will say anything for money, no matter how deranged.
The fact that Steve said the 4060 should be 20% cheaper than the B580 just proves they will say anything for money, no matter how deranged.
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