I found a benchmark with the Arc B580 on MSFS 2024. The B580 outperforms both the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 and is basically on par with the 4060Ti.
Level 1 Techs stated that his review showed that the B580 does better against the competition as the resolution increases .
I’d like to see some 4K (3840x2160) benchmarks.
The B580 is getting great reviews…
I’m about to make the purchase last advice: b580 or 770 are the 12 GB that create doubts for me. For the moment I simulate I am with MSFS 2020.
There is a benchmark of the B580 on 4K Ultra from the same source I got these graphics from. I hadn’t posted it initially because I don’t think it’s a suitable card for 4K gaming, but there it is.
Ultra settings is obviously a very ambitious configuration for 4K on a B580. I believe it’s possible to get above 30 FPS on medium. Note that these tests are usually done flying a Cessna over an empty area. Expect lower performance flying over cities with heavy photogrammetry and/or with airport and scenery add-ons. Even some default aircraft.
4K Ultra highlights the limitations of the 4060’s VRAM, which makes it lose even to the 3060, and the 4060Ti 8GB lose to the B580.
The B580, despite having slightly less VRAM than the Arc A770 16GB, has better performance in basically every game tested so far. In some of them, the difference is quite significant in favor of the B580. I believe that 12GB of VRAM should be OK for MSFS 2024 if you want to upgrade later. For MSFS 2020, is more than enough.
In addition, the B580, being a new generation card, should have hardware optimizations over the Alchemist cards, which cannot be brought to these cards via a driver update. It reminds me of a piece of advice my father gave me when I was buying a new car: Never buy first generation of anything.
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I made the purchase I took the b580. It has less Vram but it is of new conception… I simulate at 1440p on a 27 inch monitor. I do not care about having 60fps, 30/35 are enough for me on complex scenarios such as London or New York with live traffic from Vatsim or FSTL. My decision was new conception. I hope that the drivers are already optimized. Now we wait for it to arrive… in Italy it can be found at a reasonable price 286 euros
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Lucky guy to find a B580 for a reasonable price right now, especially in Europe.
Where I live, it hasn’t even arrived yet. Even new Intel CPUs usually take a month to arrive here in Brazil.
short review on the b580: set everything to ultra except clouds on High end and waves on the water on High end. with pmdg 737 very smooth flight for a short flight in Italy on two medium pay airports. TAA configuration no FSR or DLSS (also because I don’t know how to install them). FSLT traffic. 38 average FPS on the ground 45 in flight. VRAM use 11.8 GB maximum average 10.5. Fantastic GPU
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Just select an option on the Graphics options screen in FS2020/2024.
Click the TAA box and the drop down will give you the choices.
Unfortunately I have never had an Nvidia GPU and therefore I do not have DLSS and I do not even know where to download it
Those are Graphics options of FS2024 and FS2020.
PC World gave the Intel B580 the “Best GPU of 2024”.
“This is the graphics card we’ve been begging for since the pandemic: Not only does the $249 Arc B580 offer modern ray tracing and features, it also includes an ample 12GB of memory attached to a wide bus, making it a truly great graphics card for 1080p and 1440p gaming alike”
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New driver is available: ## 6332 WHQL ##
For all ARC cards plus iGPUs.
This is the 76th driver released.
Intel® Graphics Driver 32.0.101.6332/32.0.101.101.6253 for Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics, Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, and Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors with Intel® Arc™ Graphics
Download the .exe.
Select “Customize” then “ Execute a Clean Install”.
Then select Reboot.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-windows.html
I have installed this driver to my i7-14700K iGPU.
I decided to disregard my own advice and buy an Arc A770 16GB.
Before you ask, there are two reasons I didn’t buy the B580 instead: 1 - It hasn’t arrived in my country yet, 2 - When it does arrive, it’s guaranteed to be expensive and not competitive compared to NVIDIA and AMD cards.
I bought the A770 from a reseller who was selling it new for a much lower price than in stores. I even thought it was a scam, but the card arrived sealed and working perfectly.
So far, I’m very satisfied and impressed with it. In both MSFS 2020 and 2024, I’m getting twice the fps I had with the 2060, even at higher graphics settings than I used before.
Buttery smooth performance, almost no stuttering. I’ve even gone back to using airport addons that I bought but stopped using because of the low performance with them.
In other games, the A770 has really surprised me. I thought I would have compatibility issues with some games, but I’ve tested about 30 games so far, including some very old ones, and have had virtually no issues. All of them performed as expected or better. Most of my older games didn’t even need any mods or anything to run.
My experience using Intel Arc so far has been no different than using an NVIDIA card. I’m very impressed with how stable Intel’s current drivers are.
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I’ve been playing with this card for several weeks now. Anyone else?
New driver is available: ## 6449 WHQL ##
For all ARC cards plus iGPUs.
This is the 77th driver released.
Intel® Graphics Driver 32.0.101.6332/32.0.101.101.6253 for Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics, Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, and Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors with Intel® Arc™ Graphics
Download the .exe.
Select “Customize” then “ Execute a Clean Install”.
Then select Reboot.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-windows.html
I have installed this driver to my i7-14700K iGPU.
Are you overclocking your B580 card?
I don’t have it.
I have an A770 LE 16 GB but replaced it with a RX 7900 XTX.
The latest driver added some features that were missing
- Switching between landscape and portrait mode
- Fixed the Windows bug that only saw Samsung TVs at 1/2 their refresh rate
- Frame Synchronization - application choice, vsync off, vsync on, smooth sync, smart sync
- FPS limiter, target fps
- 5 Low latency mode
- Image sharpening on/off, slider for 0-100
- Ansiotropic filitering (so you can urn it off in the sim) - application choice, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x
- Adaptive tessellation for mesh generation - 0 to 100
Probably better to set these in the card rather than the sim. Quick test showed that image sharpening at 50 really makes a difference.
Using the A770, what I miss is the lack of an official feature to take screenshots and record the screen, like NVIDIA and AMD have.
To take screenshots, I need to use Windows Print Screen, and to record, I need to use OBS, and leave it in the background consuming resources. I don’t think this is very ideal.
The bizarre thing is knowing that Intel Arc software had these features, but they were removed after the software update, under the excuse that “nobody used them”, which is a very lame excuse by the way.
I still have ARC Control and it still works.
See if you can find it on the internet.