Intel Arc B580 vs RTX 4060 vs RX 7600 XT Comparison & Benchmarks

Intel has finally up its game in the graphics card segment with the launch of the Arc B580. Intel Arc B580 is targeted towards the budget mid-range or mainstream segment and is priced very competitively. Arc B580 has various improvements, fixes, and additions to its previous graphics card models. The major competitors of Intel Arc B580 are Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT. The excellent price-to-performance ratio of Arc B580 has made quite a name already and has been getting favorable reviews from popular tech reviewers and websites. So, if you want to find out what Intel Arc B580 offers and how well it performs against RTX 4060 and RX 7600 XT in all major areas, please go through the comparison below.

Intel Arc B580 vs RTX 4060 vs RX 7600 XT Comparison

Below is a quick comparison between Arc B580, RTX 4060, and RX 7600 XT graphics cards based on their specifications, performance, pricing, power consumption, and features.

GPU Architecture

Intel Arc B580 is based on the Xe2 GPU architecture codenamed “Battlemage.” It uses the BMG-G21 chip and is built on the TSMC N5 (5 nm EUV) manufacturing process. The card has 20 Xe2 Cores (128 execution units per core translating to 2560 Unified Shaders), 20 Ray Tracing Units/Cores, and 160 XMX matrix accelerators or tensor cores for AI-related tasks and processing.

Nvidia GeForce RTX is based on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture and is built on a 5nm TSMC manufacturing process. It uses an AD107 GPU Chip with 3072 CUDA Cores, 24 RT Cores, and 96 Tensor Cores for AI-related tasks and processing.

Radeon RX 7600 XT from AMD is built on RDNA 3 GPU architecture on a 6nm fabrication process and uses a Navi 33 GPU chip. It has 2048 Stream Processors, 32 Ray Accelerators, and 64 AI Accelerators.

Video RAM [VRAM]

Intel Arc B580 has 12 GB GDDR6 memory with a bus width of 192-bit. The memory runs at a speed of 19 Gbps and delivers a bandwidth of 456 GB/s, the highest among its competitors in this comparison. RTX 4060 comes with 8GB GDDR6 memory, which is the lowest in this comparison. The memory bus interface is 128-bit and runs at 17 Gbps, delivering a bandwidth of 272 GB/s. On the other hand, the Radeon RX 7600 XT offers 16 GB GDDR6 memory, the highest in this comparison. Its memory interface is 128-bit and runs at a speed of 17Gbps, delivering a bandwidth of 288 Gbps. RX 7600 XT also comes equipped with 32MB Infinity Cache, an ultra-fast cache that can help achieve peak memory bandwidth (burst memory bandwidth) of up to 477 GB/s for a short time.

Features

All these graphics cards support DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan and support variable refresh rate technologies (G-Sync/FreeSync) to reduce stuttering in games for a butter smooth gaming experience, PCI Express 4.0, Real-Time Ray Tracing, HDMI 2.1, hardware AV1 encoding/decoding. Even though all three cards support a PCIe 4.0 interface, the PCIe lanes/bandwidth is limited to x8 only. This may cause a slight performance reduction in some games, with motherboards having only a PCIe 3.0 interface.

Regarding image upscaling technology to increase frame rate or FPS in games, Intel Arc B580 has XeSS Super Resolution (XeSS-SR), RTX 4060 uses DLSS 3 (Deep Learning Super Sampling), while RX 7600 XT has AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR 3). Arc B580 and RX 7600 XT support DisplayPort 2.1 (supports 8K Display Resolution at 165Hz), while RTX 4060 does not and supports DisplayPort 1.4a.

Gaming Performance

Here are the gaming benchmarks of these graphics cards at 1080p and 1440p resolution in the latest AAA games.

1080p Gaming Benchmarks

1440p Gaming Benchmarks

From the above benchmarks, we can see that Intel Arc B580 beats both RTX 4060 and RX 7600 XT in most games by a decent margin. On average, it is around 5 percent faster than the RX 7600 XT and 7 percent faster than the RTX 4060.

Power Consumption

The maximum power consumption of Intel Arc B580 and RX 7600 XT is 190W, while RTX 4060 consumes less power with a power consumption figure of 115W.

Pricing & Availability

The base MSRP of Intel Arc B580 is 249 USD, the lowest in this comparison. The official base MSRP for RTX 4060 is 269 USD, and for RX 7600 XT, it is 329 USD. The AIB custom models of these cards may cost more, and you can check the latest prices of these cards from the links below.

Check Price of Intel Arc B580 on Amazon

Check Price of RTX 4060 on Amazon

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Intel Arc B580 vs RTX 4060 vs RX 7600 XT Specifications

Final Thoughts

The launch of the Intel Arc B580 graphics card tells us that Intel is serious about the discrete graphics card market and is not toying around. It is making significant improvements by addressing previously known issues and improving performance with every newly launched graphics card. The competitive pricing of Intel Arc B580 can give the already popular RTX 4060 and RX 7600 XT a tough fight in the budget mainstream segment. If you have anything to say, please let me know in the comment section below.