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Intel’s latest WorkStation Graphics card, the ARC Pro B50, has impressed how well it stacks up against Nvidia’s RTX A1000.
B50, which is marketed as a professional GPU, is compact in size, but ambitious in scope that carries features that push it into serious workstation area.
The ARC Pro B50 is built on Intel’s XE2 Architecture, the same foundation as Battlemage Consumer Line, which also operates GPUs in games -laptops.
A workstation card with modest ambitions
This chip doubles XE kernels and beam pores in the previous ARC Pro A50 and is equipped with new XMX motors.
The ARC Pro B50 runs on the BMG-G21 GPU, a smaller chip that Intel deliberately limited by cost causes.
The map offers 16 XE2 cores and 128 XMX engines, supported by 16 GB GDDR6 memory of a 128-bit interface, more than 8 GB on the A1000.
This extra capacity provides a larger buffer for professional workloads such as CAD models, video editing or running small AI models locally.
With 224 GB/S bandwidth and 170 tops of FP8, it calculates efficiency rather than raw force.
In this regard, the B50 A1000 runs, which runs with a lower bandwidth of 192 GB/s and delivers only 107.8 tops in the Int8 workloads.
Unlike consumer design, the B50 comes in a low profile form factor measuring only 168 mm, cooled by a single radial fan.
Its 70W TDP means it does not require auxiliary power and there are four Mini DisplayPort 2.1 outputs marking an upgrade over the A1000’s older 1.4A plugs.
These additions are aiming for workloads such as reproduction, inference for machine learning and content creation.
Intel has also secured more than 50 certifications with larger software vendors, a necessary step to compete in the workstation market.
In Benchmarks, Intel’s B50 surprised many observers. Geekbench AI showed it far ahead of Nvidia’s A1000 across single precision and half precision tests.
Procyon AI -Benchmarks also highlighted faster results in computer vision and text generation.
The ARC Pro B50 also achieved a modest 7% advantage over the RTX A1000 in Photoshop, with even bigger gains when isolated GPU-heavy tasks.
Premiere Pro showed similar results where the B50 surpassed its rival by almost 20% overall.
After the effects, the results were closer, although the B50 demonstrated clear strengths in 2D workloads.
The most surprising result may come from blender, as reproduction has traditionally been an area of Nvidia dominance, but the B50 had a 20% lead over the A1000.
This generation shopping, more than 130% above the older A50, shows that Intel has treated previous shortcomings.
The card also distinguished itself in MLPERF-BENCHMARKS and generated tokens almost twice as quickly as Nvidia’s professional opportunity for entry-level.
However, in areas such as Revit and Inventor, the B50 often drew RTX A1000, sometimes with wide margins.
In Inventor’s graphics test, the NVIDIA card ran more than four times faster. Still, in SolidWorks, the B50 turned out the result and sent a 33% benefit.
The Intel Arc Pro B50 is not the best GPU for any task, nor will it displace NVIDIA in all markets, but for a $ 350 card dealer gives a strong value for professional users.
Via Puget Systems / Hardwareluxx
