Asus Launches First Intel Arc Pro B70 Graphics Card for AI Workloads
ASUS has introduced its first graphics card in the Intel Arc Pro series, the UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB GDDR6. The card is aimed at the AI inference and workstation market, marking ASUS's return to Intel's discrete graphics offerings.
ASUS has launched its first Intel Arc Pro graphics card, the UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB GDDR6, targeting the AI inference and workstation sectors. This release signifies ASUS's re-entry into Intel's discrete graphics product ecosystem after a period of absence.
The new card features Intel's Xe²-architecture GPU, equipped with 32GB of GDDR6 ECC memory. It includes 32 Xe-cores and 256 XMX AI engines, delivering up to 367 TOPS of INT8 compute performance for AI tasks. The typical board power consumption is rated at 310W.
Designed with a dual-slot form factor and a blower-style cooler, the Arc Pro B70 offers one HDMI and three DisplayPort outputs. It utilizes a PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, providing a memory bandwidth of 608GB/s. The card supports various AI frameworks and tools, including vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, PyTorch, and OpenVINO.
ASUS indicates that users can scale performance and memory by configuring systems with up to four cards, aggregating to 128GB of memory for running larger AI models. Pricing information has not yet been released, but similar Intel Arc Pro B70 cards have typically ranged from $1,299 to $2,000 USD.