ASRock Arc B570 Challenger OC Performance, Power Analysis & Noise Output

Intel has distrupted the affordable GPU category with its Arc Battlemage series and in today’s review I will look at the ASRock Arc B570 Challenger OC which only costs $230, ten dollars more than the MSRP for standard B570 cards, and it is equipped with 10 GB of GDDR6 RAM. 

After the initial Arc Battlemage series with the B580, which we haven’t evaluated yet but will soon do, Intel released the more affordable Arc B570. ASRock was kind enough to send us the Arc B570 Challenger OC, sold at 230 dollars, $10 more than the standard B570 designs, with a slight overclock and a custom design. For reference, the B580 cards go for $250, notably lower than NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 offerings, which are pretty popular among gamers who don’t have the crazy amounts that the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 cost.

The Arc B570 uses Intel’s new Xe2 Battlemage architecture, which is more efficient and performs better than Intel’s previous design (Xe Alchemist). Along with these new GPU designs, Intel also introduced XeSS 2, which introduces XeFG (Freme Generation) and XeLL (Low Latency), besides super-resolution. So, Intel is keeping pace with NVIDIA’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR. The B570 uses the same GPU, BMG-G21, as the B580 based on a 5nm lithography. It has some restrictions: 18 Xe cores instead of 20, and a lower amount of VRAM, 10 GB instead of 12 GB with a narrower bandwidth at 160-bit (192-bit for the B580). Compared to the competing low-end GPUs (RTX 4060 and RX 7600), the B570 has an edge since it offers 2 GB more VRAM and an increased memory bandwidth. In multimedia, the B570 has HDMI 2.1a and DP 2.1 along with AV1 and HEVC encode and decode capable hardware.

The B570’s TDP is low, at 150W, so a plain 6+2 pin PCIe connector is enough for its power needs.

The tables below show the specs of NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel’s recent graphics card models.

NVIDIA Graphics Cards Major Specs

RTX 50 Series

RTX 40 Series

The table below contains the specs of AMD’s current-generation graphics cards for reference purposes.

AMD Graphics Cards Major Specs

Intel Graphics Cards Major Specs