Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against NVIDIA RTX & AMD Radeon AI PRO
For those considering the Arc Pro B70 for Blender 3D modeling work, the card works rather well here atop its open-source driver stack. When using Blender 5.1 and using the Intel oneAPI / AMD ROCm / NVIDIA OptiX back-ends, the Arc Pro B70 started off being faster than the Radeon PRO / Radeon AI PRO hardware tested. But behind the NVIDIA RTX graphics cards with their mature and very good OptiX back-end. The Arc Pro B70 was delivering the best value here for rendering the Barcelona scene.
In the more demanding Barbershop scene on Blender 5.1, the Arc Pro B70 was slower than the Radeon graphics cards tested but did come out to still deliver the best value.
The graphics card positioning varied a lot based on the Blender scene as with Fishy Cat, the Arc Pro B70 even managed to deliver a second place finish and by far the best value of the graphics cards tested.
For those making extensive use of Blender, the Arc Pro B70 was providing excellent value among these workstation class graphics cards.