After our Computex 2025 trip, we told you about our relative disappointment with Intel’s announcements. We were expecting (or perhaps dreaming, to be more precise) an announcement of the refresh of Arrow Lake S, a generation too under-priced for our liking, but also the arrival of a B770 to add a little salt to the market… But the latter never arrived. However, each time we visited the stands of Intel’s partners during the show, after a little classic harassment, most of them confirmed the existence of the Arc B770. Some even mentioned an arrival for the fourth quarter.
An ARC B770 for the fourth quarter?
Given the way the B580 has performed, including with recent cards such as the RTX 5060 Ti, the arrival of a B770 seems to us to be a real plus for the PC market in 2025. So what can we expect from this B770? The latest leaks suggest that the BMG-G31 chip could be used for this card. Intel has never released the specifications of the BMG-G31. But here again, several leaks point to a configuration with 32 Xe cores, a 60% increase over the BMG G21. Other welcome improvements include 16GB of GDDR6(X) VRAM and a 256-bit bus.
Ambitious optimists are putting it on a par with the RTX 5070. Let’s hope it’s just below that, in a territory where, without anticipating our future publications, there’s room and above all a positioning that would be consistent with Intel’s ramp-up.
But before we get into that, Intel really needs to get its cards out and not wait until Christmas Eve if it wants to continue its progress. It’s a sort of hurdle that the Blues have to overcome. Since the arrival of ARC cards, Intel has consistently missed its launches, mostly by arriving too late on the market. The newcomers will also have to look after their distribution. This is a particularly worrying issue in Europe and France in particular.
