ASUS Unveils First Intel Arc Card: UGen Arc Pro B70 With 32 GB VRAM

ASUS has listed its first Intel Arc graphics card, the UGen Arc Pro B70 32 GB, on its website, marking the company's entry into Intel's discrete GPU market after skipping previous generations. The card is positioned under ASUS's UGen AI accelerator lineup rather than its ProArt brand. The card features Intel's full "Big Battlemage" BMG-G31 die with 32 Xe2 cores, 256 XMX engines, and 32 GB of GDDR6 ECC memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 608 GB/s of bandwidth. ASUS rates it at a 2,800 MHz boost clock, up to 367 INT8 TOPS, and a 290 W board power, exceeding Intel's reference default of 230 W. The dual-slot blower design supports pairing four cards for 128 GB of combined VRAM, sufficient for models with up to 120 billion parameters. ASUS has not announced pricing or a release date, though Intel launched the Arc Pro B70 at $949 in March, with current US retail listings near $1,300. The company joins ASRock, Sparkle, and Maxsun in offering B70 models, and its last Intel discrete card was the passively cooled Iris Xe DG1-4G from 2021.