Intel’s most affordable Battlemage-based workstation card just surfaced in early benchmarks, giving us a first glimpse at how it stacks up. The Arc Pro B50, built on the Xe2 architecture and a cut-down BMG-G21 die with 16 Xe2 cores, has appeared in Geekbench’s Vulkan and OpenCL tests.
In Vulkan, the Pro B50 scored 78,661 points; in OpenCL, 69,890 points. That puts it roughly 20–25% behind the mainstream Arc B570, which averages close to 100,000 in Vulkan and north of 85,000 in OpenCL across multiple runs. As always, Geekbench results can swing from test to test, but the pattern fits the spec sheet: the B50 has fewer cores than the B570’s 18.
Raw scores only tell part of the story. Unlike the B570, the Arc Pro B50 is a workstation-focused GPU designed to handle memory-heavy tasks. It ships with 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, compared to the B570’s 10 GB and 160-bit interface, offering noticeably higher memory bandwidth and headroom for large datasets, AI workloads, and other memory-bound operations. It also supports PCIe 5.0, a forward-looking touch that’s unlikely to change performance much today but adds platform flexibility.
Quick comparison
– Architecture: Xe2 for both
– GPU die: BMG-G21 (cut-down) on Pro B50
– Xe2 cores: 16 (Pro B50) vs 18 (B570)
– Memory: 16 GB GDDR6, 256-bit (Pro B50) vs 10 GB GDDR6, 160-bit (B570)
– Geekbench Vulkan: ~78,661 (Pro B50) vs ~100,000 average (B570)
– Geekbench OpenCL: ~69,890 (Pro B50) vs 85,000+ average (B570)
– Interface: PCIe 5.0 (Pro B50) vs PCIe 4.0 (B570)
Launch timing and availability remain murky. Intel hasn’t formally released the Arc Pro B50 for retail, and pricing is still unknown. Indications suggest the Pro B50 and Pro B60 could appear soon, potentially through select system integrators first, with some add-in-board partners offering standalone cards thereafter. Don’t count on wide availability at launch; reports point to production snags around the Pro B60 that could limit stock.
Bottom line: If your priority is memory capacity and bandwidth for AI and content creation workloads, the Arc Pro B50’s 16 GB and wider bus may outweigh its lower synthetic scores. If you need maximum Vulkan/OpenCL numbers per dollar, the Arc B570 still looks faster on paper.
