IT News on October 17th: According to a report by Wccftech today, ASUS has launched its first Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card, targeting the AI gaming and workstation markets. ASUS had previously been absent from several generations of Intel Arc discrete graphics cards; this new release signifies its return to the Intel discrete graphics product lineup.
Asus's product is named UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB GDDR6. It utilizes Intel's Xe 2 architecture, is equipped with 32GB of GDDR6 ECC video memory, 32 Xe cores, and 256 XMX AI engines. The maximum computing power of this product can reach 367 TOPS, and the typical power consumption of the board is 310W.
This card features a dual-slot design and a turbo-style cooling structure, equipped with 1 HDMI interface and 3 DisplayPort interfaces. It utilizes the PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, and has a video memory bandwidth of 608GB/s.
Asus stated that this card supports vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, PyTorch, OpenVINO, oneAPI, and Vulkan as well as other AI frameworks and tools. Users can also expand the video memory capacity through multi-card configuration, supporting up to 4 graphics cards working together to provide a total of 128GB of video memory, enabling the operation of larger AI models.
In terms of price, ASUS has not yet announced the specific selling price of the UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB on its product page. The market price for similar Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics cards typically ranges from $1,299 to over $2,000 (Note from IT: The current exchange rate is approximately 8,701 to 13,397 RMB). The exact price depends on the product model and sales channel.
