Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against NVIDIA RTX & AMD Radeon AI PRO
With Kitware's ParaView workstation visualization software, the Arc Pro B70 was continuing to showcase great value compared to the tested NVIDIA RTX and AMD Radeon PRO offerings.
With SPECViewPerf 2020 (the latest version available for Linux), the Intel Arc Pro B70 was comparable to the RTX 4000 Ada Generation in many scenes but behind the Radeon AI PRO R9700.
When looking at the GPU power consumption across the range of workloads tested, the Arc Pro B70 was coming in at a 191 Watt average and 237 Watt peak, compared to a 211 Watt average with the Radeon PRO W7900 and a 262 Watt peak. The Radeon AI PRO R9700 had a 239 Watt average and 326 watt peak. So beyond the Arc Pro B70 delivering typically leading value of the GPUs tested, it was also consuming much less power than the Radepn AI PRO R9700 but not as competitive performance-per-Watt as the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation tested.
That's the latest data after a few more days of testing with the Intel Arc Pro B70 on Linux. Next tests being worked on are looking at the Intel Arc Pro B70 scaling performance and getting vLLM in good shape on this BMG-G31 graphics card.
Thanks to Intel for providing the Arc Pro B70 hardware for Linux testing at Phoronix.
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