Intel Arc B570 review: a budget GPU that's too good to be true?

2025 sees the latest revision of our GPU test suite, with new and returning games that we've retrofitted with custom benchmarks to highlight stress points. The selection includes many titles that we've highlighted as offering the best graphics in gaming - with correspondingly challenging settings chosen to boot.

We begin with a selection of ray tracing titles, as this typically offers the toughest test of a modern graphics card and use of RT continues to ramp up as we proceed throughout the 2020s. On this page, we have two games famed for their natural environments - the temperate forests of Alan Wake 2 and the jungles of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

If this is the first time you're seeing a Digital Foundry graphics card review on Eurogamer, our benchmarking system deserves a short introduction. On mobile devices you'll see simple performance tables for each graphics card and resolution we tested, while on desktop-class browsers you'll get an embedded YouTube video and animated bar chart. Click play on the video to see our test scene unfold with live metrics, or mouse over the bar chart to see the various measurements. You can also click on the bar chart to change from absolute frame-rate readings to percentages.

Alan Wake 2

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Intel Arc B570 Analysis

• Introduction
• RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora [This Page]
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, F1 24, Hitman: World of Assassination
• RT benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, A Plague Tale: Requiem [This Page]
• Game benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Black Myth: Wukong
• Game benchmarks: F1 24, Forza Horizon 5, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
• Game benchmarks: Hitman: World of Assassination, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Driver overhead testing: does Arc underperform with older CPUs?
• Conclusions, value and recommendations