Nvidia RTX 4060 vs. Intel Arc B580

We recently reviewed Intel's Arc B580, a new budget GPU designed to deliver RTX 4060-like performance featuring 12GB of VRAM for just $250. Our review included testing across 12 games, and for the most part, the Arc B580 performed extremely well.

However, after that review was published, it was discovered that the Arc B580 has a rather serious CPU overhead issue that affects performance in CPU-limited games when paired with a slower processor, such as the Ryzen 5 5600.

We've since retested the Intel GPU with less capable CPUs, and in short, while the Arc B580 is still very usable with a CPU like the 5600, it does struggle in CPU-demanding games, resulting in noticeably slower performance than we initially expected. This obviously hurts the overall value of Intel's GPU.

The overhead issue was discovered before we completed all the testing for this review unfortunately, which uses ...