According to a report from Kuaitech on August 31st， Intel’s entry-level workstation graphics card， the Arc Pro B50， has made its first appearance in Geekbench’s Vulkan and OpenCL tests.
The Arc Pro B50 is based on the BMG-G21 chip and features 16 Xe2 cores. Architecturally， it is quite close to the mainstream Arc B570， which has 18 cores.
In the Geekbench tests， the Arc Pro B50 scored 78，661 points in Vulkan and 69，890 points in OpenCL.
In comparison， the Arc Pro B570 achieves an average score of nearly 100，000 points in Vulkan and over 85，000 points in OpenCL. This suggests that the Arc Pro B50’s performance is approximately 20% to 25% lower than the Arc Pro B570. This performance difference is expected given the reduced core count， which typically translates to lower raw processing power.
However， as a professional workstation graphics card， the Arc Pro B50’s strengths lie in its higher video memory capacity and wider memory bandwidth. Compared to the Arc Pro B570’s 10GB of VRAM and 160-bit memory bus， the Arc Pro B50 is equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory and a 256-bit memory bus. This configuration is particularly advantageous for tasks requiring substantial memory resources， such as handling large datasets in AI workloads or complex 3D rendering， potentially offsetting the raw compute deficit in specific professional applications.
Furthermore， the Arc Pro B50 features the latest PCIe 5.0 interface， rather than PCIe 4.0. Intel has not yet announced the official pricing for this new professional graphics card.
