IT Home On October 17, according to Wccftech’s report today, ASUS has launched its first Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card, targeting the AI inference and workstation market. ASUS was absent from several generations of Intel Arc discrete graphics cards before, and this new product marks its return to the Intel discrete graphics product line.
ASUS’s product is named the UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB GDDR6. It features a Big Battlemage GPU based on the Intel Xe2 architecture, with 32GB GDDR6 ECC memory, 32 Xe cores, and 256 XMX AI engines. The INT8 AI computing power can reach up to 367 TOPS, and the typical board power consumption is 310W.
The card features a dual slot design and a turbine-style cooling structure. It is equipped with 1 HDMI port and 3 DisplayPort ports, uses a PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, and has a memory bandwidth of 608GB/s.
ASUS says that the card supports AI frameworks and tools such as vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, PyTorch, OpenVINO, oneAPI, and Vulkan. Users can also expand the video memory capacity through multi-gpu configuration, with up to 4 graphics cards working together, providing a total of 128GB of video memory to run larger-scale AI models.
In terms of price, ASUS has not announced the specific price of the UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB on its product page. The market price of similar Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics cards usually ranges from $1,299 to $2,000 (IT Home note: at current exchange rates, this is approximately 8,701 to 13,397 RMB), and the exact price depends on the product model and sales channel.
