Intel Arc B570 review: a budget GPU that's too good to be true?

We close out on non-RT benchmarks with two final titles that we've seen before in their RT guises - Hitman: World of Asssassination and A Plague Tale: Requiem. Both games play well enough at lower frame-rates, but they're still demanding enough on the underlying hardware that there are meaningful differences as we jump from one generation to another.

Again, it's a combination of custom benchmarks and integrated ones here, with Hitman offering an excellent benchmark suite in its launcher with the choice of the Dubai (GPU) or Dartmoor (CPU) benchmarks. Meanwhile, we used an in-game cutscene from A Plague Tale: Requiem, with some custom work required to get to the precise moment the cutscene triggers with a minimum of faff.

Hitman: World of Assassination

A Plague Tale: Requiem

Intel Arc B570 Analysis

• Introduction
• RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, F1 24, Hitman: World of Assassination
• RT benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Game benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Black Myth: Wukong [This Page]
• Game benchmarks: F1 24, Forza Horizon 5, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
• Game benchmarks: Hitman: World of Assassination, A Plague Tale: Requiem [This Page]
• Driver overhead testing: does Arc underperform with older CPUs?
• Conclusions, value and recommendations