Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 3 September 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 8 of 8. 54 Comments.

👁 Intel Arc Pro B50 16GB graphics card

When taking the geometric mean of all the benchmarks that ran successfully on all of the graphics cards, here is the geo mean summary:

Overall the Intel Arc Pro B50 was at 1.47x the performance of the NVIDIA RTX A1000 with that mix of OpenGL, Vulkan, and OpenCL/Vulkan compute workloads both synthetic and real-world tests. That is just under Intel's own reported Windows figures of the Arc Pro B50 delivering 1.6x the performance of the RTX A1000 for graphics and 1.7x the performance of the A1000 for AI inference. This is all the more impressive when considering the Arc Pro B50 price of $349+ compared to the NVIDIA RTX A1000 at $420+.

The Arc Pro B50 was at 1.39x the performance of the Radeon PRO W7500 graphics card. Overall the Arc Pro B50 performed well for an entry-level workstation graphics card. As mentioned, unfortunately no Arc Pro A50 generational comparison for never having received a review sample from Intel of that prior graphics card.

Here is a look at the GPU power consumption data overall for the graphics cards that exposed/offer a GPU power sensor for monitoring. The Arc Pro B50 over the span of all these benchmarks had a 59 Watt average and recorded peak of 71 Watts. This was slightly higher than the Radeon PRO W7500 with a 48 Watt average and 55 Watt peak. Unfortunately the NVIDIA RTX A1000 used for testing didn't have a power sensor but for the RTX A2000 it came in with a 54 Watt average and 70.5 Watt peak, or very similar to the Arc Pro B50.

The low-profile Intel Arc Pro B50 graphics card during this mix of workloads had an average core temperature of 77 degrees and a peak of 84 degrees, which was warmer than the NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics cards tested as well as of the Radeon PRO W7500.

For those looking for a low-profile, entry-level workstation graphics card backed by fully open-source Linux graphics driver support, the Intel Arc Pro B50 is an interesting option at $349 USD. There was competitive performance in most workloads and much greater value than the NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation and AMD Radeon PRO pricing. Plus there is the forthcoming SR-IOV support and other Arc Pro enhancements coming to the open-source Linux graphics driver stack via Project Battlematrix.

Thanks to Intel for providing the review sample for launch-day Linux testing and I will have additional Arc Pro B50 Linux benchmarks as the open-source Linux driver stack continues to improve with future Linux kernel, Mesa, and Compute Runtime releases.

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