Intel has recently unveiled its latest professional-grade graphics cards, the Arc Pro B70 and B65. Initially earmarked for the development of the Arc B770 gaming GPU, the gaming card project was ultimately shelved. The Arc Pro B70 is crafted utilizing TSMC's advanced 5nm manufacturing process, boasting 32 Xe2 cores, a substantial 32GB of GDDR6 memory, and an impressive computing prowess of 367 TOPS in FP8 operations, all while maintaining a total card power consumption of 230W. In contrast, the Arc Pro B65 comes with 20 cores and shares the same memory capacity as the B70, though its computational performance is nearly cut in half.

According to tests conducted by Germany's HardwareLuxx, the Arc Pro B70 shines in workstation and AI applications, notably outperforming its AMD and NVIDIA counterparts in AI inference speed. However, the efficiency benefits of a quad-GPU parallel configuration are somewhat limited, mainly due to the constraints imposed by PCIe lane bandwidth. When it comes to power consumption, the combined draw surpasses 720W when four cards are operated in parallel.