Review of Intel Arc B580: The decade’s first deserving low-cost GPU
The graphics card we have been pleading for since the outbreak is Intel’s $249 Arc B580. I chose that headline for our first report on Intel’s second-generation discrete graphics cards because, on paper at least, it is accurate. Since the epidemic, AMD and Nvidia have been nerfing the memory system of graphics cards that cost less than $350, limiting their optimal utilization to 1080p resolution. In the meantime, 1440p monitors—a very noticeable and reasonably priced upgrade—are becoming increasingly popular among…