popularN3RD_01 posted Jan 06, 2026 09:35 PM
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popularN3RD_01 posted Jan 06, 2026 09:35 PM
ASRock Intel Arc B580 Steel Legend Overclocked Triple Fan 12GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card $269.99
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The only downside is that it is an ASRock card.
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However, in older games I tested, I found compatibility issues in some games. The core problem with older games is not that the drivers are bad, it is that the hardware only supports DX12 and Vulkan. So anything else you try to run is actually running through wrapper or translation layer. This makes compatibility imperfect. That being said, it wasn't like all old games I tried failed. A lot of them worked just fine in my limited testing.
So it depends what you play, if you are only playing new-ish AAA games, it is mostly good. Although they tend to be a bit slower than AMD and NVIDIA to get patches out. If you play older games, you may hit games where you need to employ some workaround to get them working.
Ultimately, you will make compromises with either the B580 or the 5060. In the case of the B580, it is compatibility. In the case of the 5060, you will need to make setting concessions to stay under 8GB of VRAM, especially at 1440p. It is, unfortunate that there isn't a really good solution at the $250 price point. Even used, I am not really sure what would be better at that price point. I guess maybe an RX 6700 XT would be the best bet? But that is a 2 generations old card that AMD has already tried to retire driver updates for once.
In 2025, the options at the $250 price point are not ideal.
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However, in older games I tested, I found compatibility issues in some games. The core problem with older games is not that the drivers are bad, it is that the hardware only supports DX12 and Vulkan. So anything else you try to run is actually running through wrapper or translation layer. This makes compatibility imperfect. That being said, it wasn't like all old games I tried failed. A lot of them worked just fine in my limited testing.
So it depends what you play, if you are only playing new-ish AAA games, it is mostly good. Although they tend to be a bit slower than AMD and NVIDIA to get patches out. If you play older games, you may hit games where you need to employ some workaround to get them working. Only reason I would get this card is for the AV encoding and even that was buggy.
Ultimately, you will make compromises with either the B580 or the 5060. In the case of the B580, it is compatibility. In the case of the 5060, you will need to make setting concessions to stay under 8GB of VRAM, especially at 1440p. It is, unfortunate that there isn't a really good solution at the $250 price point. Even used, I am not really sure what would be better at that price point. I guess maybe an RX 6700 XT would be the best bet? But that is a 2 generations old card that AMD has already tried to retire driver updates for once.
In 2025, the options at the $250 price point are not ideal.
Having said that seems they at least finally fixed having to reinstall driver 2x everytime they released a new one. Was most annoying bug along with the app crashing all the time and they even put in release notes to just reopen it if it crashed cuz was known issue LOL
I'd only get it for the AV1 decoding/encoding but even that seemed buggy last time I checked.
"Intel seems to have ironed out many of the generic driver issues over the last few years. However, ... [pugetsystems.com]
Also, depending on app or game discrete GPU might not get used and iGPU used instead so basically paying for GPU that ain't being used!
" WE have since determined that this was due to a scheduling issue in Inventor/Windows, where the system was sending work to the iGPU rather than the discrete Intel graphics card. "
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