Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Linux Workstation Graphics Performance

With the SNX-04 viewset in SPECViewPerf 2020 on Linux, there was 35% better performance going from the Arc A580 to Arc B580. On a performance-per-Watt basis was 1.55x for the Arc B580.

With the Solidworks viewset in SPECViewPerf was an incredible win for the Battlemage Arc B580 graphics... More than double the performance of Alchemist! In turn a huge leap in power efficiency too for Solidworks on the Intel Battlemage graphics.

These initial SPECViewPerf results for the Intel Arc B-Series show a rather nice upgrade from the Arc A580 to Arc B580 graphics. There was just one viewset (CREO) where there was an anomaly with the performance and hopefully will be rectified soon in Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D driver. In all the other viewsets was a very nice showing for this $249 USD graphics card for both raw workstation graphics performance and the performance-per-Watt.