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Who knows if they'll be any good but the two boards look cheap and low power.

The top end board is 24GB of memory and allegedly $500 list price.

The other one is 16GB and cheaper

Both claim relatively modest power requirements. 200 watts supposedly.

Initially only to be sold in prebuilt workstations but suggested they'll come to retail this autumn.

If you need VRAM more than pure speed might be a choice. The low power should mean low heat and a quieter machine.

Options are good

Hopefully Puget gets some and can do some benchmarks.

Nvidia sure makes you pay dearly for VRAM (Of course US prices may be worse than other places in the world)

5070 12gb $600+
5060TI 16gb $450
5070 TI 16gb $900
5080 16gb $1300


Puget tested the Arc B580, 13% faster than 4060TI for GPU. and 4% Slower than 4060 Overall. (Intel drivers are always in flux, so maybe better numbers today?) Sadly I don't see any intel comparisons of the 50 series tests

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... lve_Studio

Extrapolating 50 series comparisons, 5070 is 14% better overall than 4070 super. So 5070 is going to be ~20% faster than B580?
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... lve_Studio


B580 'Battlemage tech', 20 xe Cores, 12gb, 2560 Sharders, 2670mhz, 190w, $350

New B50, 16xe cores, 2600mhz, 16GB, 70W $300
New B60, 20 Xe Cores, 2400mhz, 24gb, 200W $500

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... tions.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... tions.html
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... o-b60-gpus



So, $300 B50 16gb vs $450 5060TI 16gb. NV is probably going to be faster renders, 30%?
$500 B60 24GB VS $450 5060TI 16gb, NV is probably still faster renders by a few %,

But if you need 24gb, Intel at $500 vs $3000 for 32GB 5090, Or $3000 for 24gb 4090.

Would be interested to hear from anyone who can say 16gb is NOT enough and what they are actually rendering. 8k? Superscale?

The price difference is going to be worse. These cards are targeting the same market Nvidia's workstation cards are aimed at.

Ignoring speed (I know we can't) the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 would be the Nvidia workstation card with 24GB

I see a Dual B60 card is also in the pipeline. This will have 48gb of Vram. Not seeing any claims for price, but north of $1000 for sure.


But this is simply two B60 cards stuck on one board. The X16 PCI slot needs to be bifurcated by the motherboard and x8 is sent to each half.

Resolve today doesn't pool vram, so you would still be limited to 24gb. (not that that would seem a limitation to any work I would ever consider doing)

ML is the clear target for this card, where they have built their algorithms to pool vram from multiple GPUs and you see $100k+ machines with 8x GPU inside.

Many Resolve effects also have not scaled in performance with multiple GPUs. So don't expect 2x b60 to give you half the render times.



https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... lve_Studio



TLDR: Don't look at the dual B60 48gb card as a great option for resolve.