Intel has unveiled a wide range of entry-level workstation solutions for consumers, featuring the Intel Arrow Lake "Core Ultra 200" CPUs. Intel Debuts Affordable Workstations Based on Arrow Lake "Core Ultra 200" CPUs: Claims Superior Performance Compared to Its Rivals The Intel client segment received entry-level workstation systems for consumers, which will offer competitive performance on a budget. Intel has announced both desktop and laptop workstations, equipped with the latest Intel Core Ultra processors, offering noticeable performance uplifts over its rival. In the desktop segment, Intel claims up to 13% higher multithreaded performance with Core Ultra 200S in programs like Cinebench Multicore 2024 vs AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X. This is reportedly achieved at 11% better performance per watt compared to the AMD CPU, when both operated at 125W of TDP. The desktop workstation systems will offer up to 256 Gb-6400 of DDR5 EEC memory, WiFi 6E, and features such as remote KVM, Intel vPro, and Pro Codec support. The laptop workstation segment brings Intel Core Ultra 200HX and Intel Core Ultra 200H processors for high-performance and thin & light laptops, respectively. The Core Ultra 200HX reportedly delivers up to 8% and 42% higher single and multithreaded performance vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, respectively. With a good 41% better power efficiency vs Meteor Lake, the 200HX laptops can deliver superior performance at the same wattage. 2 of 9 The HP ZBook Furey 18 is one of the first workstation laptops, which is scheduled for a retail launch in June and will bring up to 256 Gb of EEC DDR5 memory and built-in NPU for local AI workload execution. Intel has also shared benchmarks of the flagship Core Ultra 9 285HX vs the i9 14900HX from previous gen to showcase the uplifts the Core Ultra 200HX brings in popular professional workloads. Then we have the Intel Core Ultra 200H-based budget workstation laptops such as the Dell Pro Max 16, which deliver up to 22% faster performance vs Ryzen AI 9 365 in Geekbench 6.3 multicore workload and a staggering 21+ hours of battery life. It will feature the Arc 140T integrated graphics, which can take care of both professional workloads and gaming. Compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS, which is a Zen 4 chip, the Core Ultra 200H delivers up to 36% better performance across 9 applications. 2 of 9 Similarly, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285H delivers up to 26% better performance than Zen 5-based Ryzen AI 9 365 in 6 different applications. Intel also shared its Arc 140T performance prowess in apps like Autodesk Inventor and Chaos V-Ray for Cinema 4D, where the 200H chip is 2.15X and 1.30X faster than the iGPU present on the Core Ultra 185H, respectively. However, those who crave even superior graphical performance can opt for the latest Arc Pro B60 24 GB or the Arc Pro B50 16 GB workstation GPUs, but these can only be used on desktops. Deal of the Day

Key Takeaways Maxsun unveiled the new Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual GPU video card, featuring two 24GB Pro B60 GPUs. It features a blower-style fan, ideal for building complex workstations with multiple cards. Although the pricing isn’t made public yet, we expect it to be around $1,000, which can be a competition-killer. Remember the good old CrossFire days when you could hook up multiple AMD GPUs to achieve higher performance? Well, those days might be returning thanks to the new Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual GPU launched by Maxsun at Computex. It PCIe features two 24GB GPUs in a single card, meaning you can get 48 GB of GPU memory. What’s incredible here is that the Arc Pro B60 only needs 8 PCIe lanes, unlike some high-end GPUs that need 16. However, you’ll need an X16 motherboard/CPU combo that supports PCIe bifurcation. In that case, the entire x16 slot can be split into two x8 connections. Interestingly, the Arc Pro B60 isn’t marketed as a gaming GPU – it’s meant primarily for workstations that require high computing power for tasks such as rendering, animations, moderate AI development, 3D modelling, etc. This is why it features a unique blower-like fan instead of the typical open-air fan we see in gaming CPUs. Unlike open-air fans that spread the heat out inside the case, a blower-style fan works like a hairdryer by pushing the heat out from the inside of the case. While the cooling efficiency of a blower fan might be lower on a single GPU, they turn out to be more effective in stacks, which is exactly what the Arc Pro B60 is meant for. So, if you’re building a workstation with 3 Arc Pro B60s, a blower-style fan ensures all 6 GPUs can be cooled without overwhelming the entire setup, making it better for ‘stacking.’ Comeback of Multi-GPU Setups Multi-GPU setups were quite the thing back in the day. We’re sure that a couple of die-hard builders in our team would serve up puppy eyes thinking about hooking up two 16GB GPUs to get more power. However, despite the widespread belief that you would get double the performance, memory was only enhanced by 30-50%. Still, these CrossFire setups served the purpose, i.e., gamers could play resource-intensive games. It’s worth noting that such dual-GPU setups faded away with the rapid development of newer GPUs. In short, single GPUs became powerful enough to overshadow dual GPUs. Eventually, a lot of applications and games stopped supporting CrossFire setups. With the new Intel Arc Pro B60, dual GPUs might make a mini-comeback. They’re not returning to the gaming arena, but to data centers, workstations, and AI setups. NVIDIA hasn’t promoted this in a long time, pushing its expensive GPUs into the market instead. This is also precisely where Intel wants to punch harder – the price point. Although we’re still waiting for the exact details on the Intel Arc Pro B60 dual GPU setup price, experts believe it could be priced around $1,000-$1,200. To get the same 48 GB of VRAM, you might have to spend $5,000-6,000 with models like the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada. Of course, there will be performance differences between the two, too, but getting at-par VRAM is the first step of the process. Honestly, if power-intensive workspaces are able to get 48 GB of VRAM at 70-80% less cost, this dual GPU setup can become a market killer. In other news, Intel has also announced Project Battlematrix – a solution that supports AI workloads that can combine up to eight Intel Arc Pro GPUs in a system, with 192 GB of VRAM. The company seems to be working hard on the workstation and data processing industry – something NVIDIA and AMD haven’t catered to explicitly yet. This could give Intel a first-mover advantage. 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AMD RX 9060 XT Specs & Price, Threadripper 9980X, 9970X, 9960X, & R9700 GPUsMay 21, 2025Last Updated: 2025-05-21We go over AMD’s Computex 2025 announcements which include the company’s new RX 9060 XT GPUs, Threadripper CPUs, AI Pro workstation GPU, and moreThe HighlightsAMD’s RX 9060 XT will have 8 and 16GB modelsAMD announced new Threadripper CPUs that include the 9980X, 9970X, 9960X along with PRO 9000 WX-series CPUsAMD also revealed the 9995WX, its new AI Pro workstation GPU, which will come with 128 AI accelerators, 32GB of GDDR6 memory, up to 1531 TOPS, and a 300W TDPTable of ContentsAutoTOC Grab a GN Tear-Down Toolkit to support our AD-FREE reviews and IN-DEPTH testing while also getting a high-quality, highly portable 10-piece toolkit that was custom designed for use with video cards for repasting and water block installation. Includes a portable roll bag, hook hangers for pegboards, a storage compartment, and instructional GPU disassembly cards.IntroAMD just announced its RX 9060 XT GPUs (coming in two memory configurations). We already knew about these but the company just formally announced them. AMD also revealed its “Radeon AI Pro R9700” workstation GPU, and the company’s latest Threadripper 9000 series and Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-series of CPUs. Unlike NVIDIA, AMD actually wants people to know about its products rather than about anti-consumer, anti-free-press actions, so AMD not only announced the products and gave information on them, but will also be sending out review samples well in advance and without conditions - which normally isn’t worth mentioning, but is worth pointing out because of the recent NVIDIA issues.Editor's note: This was originally published on May 20, 2025 as a video. This content has been adapted to written format for this article and is unchanged from the original publication.CreditsHostSteve BurkeCamera, Video EditingMike GaglioneVitalii MakhnovetsWritingTannen WilliamsWeb EditingJimmy ThangThe 9060 XT 16GB will be $350 with the 8GB model at $300. They will release on June 5th. The GPU die is the same for both models, but new from the 9070 (read our review) and 9070 XT (read our review) (which also shared a GPU die). The new die is Navi 44 for the 9060 XTs and sized at 199mm^2, down from 357mm^2 on the 9070-class cards.The company didn’t provide as many first-party testing results as they typically have in the past. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, because all of those results have to be taken with a grain of salt anyway, but we’ll mainly just be sticking to the specs today. We plan to review these cards once they launch. Our understanding is that, unlike the 5060, AMD plans to continue sampling GPUs as usual.Just a heads-up: The information in this article is from a pre-briefing, so this is based on conversations with AMD and not the live presentation itself.AMD Radeon RX 9060 XTThe 9060 XT will come in 16GB and 8GB versions. As for the features that will be shared between the two: Each will have 32 compute units, 32 hardware RT accelerators, 64 of what AMD calls its AI accelerators, and a 3.13 GHz boost clock. Both models will run PCIe gen 5.0 x16 slots, DisplayPort 2.1a, and HDMI 2.1b. AMD also lists a range of 150W-182W for board power, which explains the single PCIe 8-pin connector pictured in the rendering of the GPU. In speaking with AMD, the lower end of the range is for 8GB models.For reference, AMD’s 9070 XT has 64 compute units, 64 RT accelerators, and 128 AI accelerators, or double the amount of the 9060 XT’s CUs and accelerators. The 16GB 9060 XT matches the memory capacity of both the 9070 and 9070 XT, but with a weaker core. These 9060 XTs will be direct competitors to NVIDIA’s 5060 Ti cards, even mirroring the same VRAM configurations. Despite identical memory sizes, NVIDIA’s 50 series cards utilize a newer GDDR7 memory compared to AMD’s GDDR6. As for how much that matters, that depends on the architecture and how much it’s going to rely on the memory bandwidth and that extra speed. We’ll look at it in testing and see how it performs in the real world. Additional differences include the 9060 XT’s use of PCIe 5.0 x16 as opposed to the 5060 Ti’s (read our review) PCIe 5.0 x8 interface. In benchmarking at x8 vs x16 on gen 5, it’s not going to matter. The place where it might matter is socketing it into an older board where cutting the lane count in half is going to become a restriction in some configurations.AMD’s first-party benchmarks compared it against the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti, which we think is fair since it’s a price-parity comparison. We’ll do our own benchmarking pretty soon in our review. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 and PRO 9000 WX-Series CPUs Grab a GN15 Large Anti-Static Modmat to celebrate our 15th Anniversary and for a high-quality PC building work surface. The Modmat features useful PC building diagrams and is anti-static conductive. Purchases directly fund our work! (or consider a direct donation or a Patreon contribution!)AMD also announced its newest Threadripper 9000 Zen 5 CPUs, including the 9980X, 9970X, and 9960X, codenamed “Shimada Peak.” These have been upgraded with increased memory support and enhanced AVX-512 for more demanding tasks.We’ll start with the standard AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 CPUs. This series includes the 9980X, 9970X, and 9960X.The 9980X is a 64C/128T CPU at 3.2 GHz base clock and with 256 MB of L3 cache. The 9970X has 32 cores, 64 threads, a 4.0 GHz base clock, and 128 MB of L3 cache. And finally, the 9960X will come with 24 cores, 48 threads, a 4.2 GHz base clock, and also 128 MB of L3 cache. All of these CPUs will also feature an up to 5.4 GHz max boost clock, PCIe 5.0, the same sTR5 socket, and a 350W TDP.For AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-Series: The company announced six new CPUs, which include the 9945WX, 9955WX, 9965WX, 9975WX, 9985WX, and the flagship 9995WX. Starting with the 9945WX and working our way up, these chips will come with core counts of 12, 16, 24, 32, 64, and finally 96 cores for the 9995WX. This mirrors the existing and prior 7000 series CPU configurations just now on Zen 5. Both the PRO and non-PRO Threadripper CPUs seem to resemble the same basic specs as the 7000 series of Threadripper processors. In these spec sheets, with a higher max boost frequency for the 9000 series CPUs, but a lot of the rest is familiar. One notable difference between the PRO WX and the non-PRO series of Threadrippers is that the workstation series offers “AMD PRO technologies,” which AMD describes as, “a robust suite of enterprise-grade features including multilayered security, advanced remote manageability, and long-term platform stability.” Additionally, at least in the past, the PRO WX-series cards supported the WRX90 chipset in addition to the TRX50 chipset.AMD hasn’t announced any prices at this time, but the press-brief lists availability for July 2025, so we should be expecting to see these soon.AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700Finally, AMD introduced its latest AI Pro workstation GPU. Intel also just announced its new Pro GPUs this past week and we already have a tear-down up of the B60.For specs, this RDNA 4 card will come with 128 AI accelerators, 32GB of GDDR6 memory, up to 1531 TOPS claimed, and a 300W TDP.Compared to one of its predecessor, the Radeon Pro W7700, the new R9700 increases TFLOPS (FP16) from 56.54 to 96, increases AI accelerators from 96 to 128, upgrades to PCIe Gen 5 from Gen 4, and doubles the memory size from 16 to 32GB. Unfortunately, AMD’s press-brief didn’t include any CU, stream processors, or memory bandwidth info for the R9700, so we’ll have to wait to see those exact specs.Due to the R9700’s noticeable configuration improvements over its predecessor, the new GPU ends up being slightly more comparable to the Radeon Pro W7800 which has 140 AI accelerators, 32GB of GDDR6 memory, and 90.5 (FP16) TFLOPS. In its press-brief, AMD included a slide to illustrate how 32GB of VRAM gives users more options in their ability to load larger AI models by highlighting four models that would exceed 16GB of VRAM, but can be used with 32GB of VRAM instead. Additionally, due to the GPU’s ability to load models with larger parameters or that are less quantized, the GPU may also see an uplift in the accuracy of the model’s responses.To expand upon that point, AMD includes another chart labeled “Large AI Models Performance” where it compares an RTX 5080 (read our review) to its AI Pro R9700. Once again, this chart demonstrates how 32GB offers access to run larger models that 16GB just can’t handle. These results are expected. We think a more meaningful comparison might’ve been using the RTX 5090 that also has 32GB of VRAM. This would represent a more like-for-like scenario but we don’t do a lot of ML testing so we’ll leave that for someone else. AMD also shows off the card’s “Multi-GPU PCIe 5 platform” that allows users to connect 4 AI PRO R9700s for some extremely demanding models that need up to 128GB of combined VRAM and theoretically 4x the computing power.We didn’t receive a price for this card, but AMD lists an availability of July 2025. Conclusion Visit our Patreon page to contribute a few dollars toward this website's operation (or consider a direct donation or buying something from our GN Store!) Additionally, when you purchase through links to retailers on our site, we may earn a small affiliate commission.That’ll wrap it up for AMD’s announcements.Unfortunately, it’s a bit difficult to get an idea for performance based on the specs alone, and even harder to get an idea for the value for something without a price.Ideally, we’d be able to get our hands on some of these once they’re publicly available, which should be soon according to AMD’s press-brief.

What just happened? At Computex 2025, Intel unveiled its Arc Pro B60 and B50 Battlemage graphics cards with 24GB and 16GB of VRAM, respectively. Maxsun has fused two of the B60 GPUs to create a dual-GPU monster with 48GB of GDDR6 memory. Dubbed the Arc Pro B60 Dual Turbo, the two-slot graphics card is meant for high-end workstations running AI workloads. The Arc Pro B60 is based on the full-fat Battlemage BMG-G21 silicon - the same die that powers the Arc B570 and Arc B580 graphics cards. Maxsun's Dual Turbo version utilizes dual G21 silicon on a single board, but instead of being connected via a PLX chip, they operate as separate GPUs, each with its own 24GB GDDR6 memory chip. The B60 features a 2,400 MHz clock speed, 20 Xe cores, 20 RT units, and 160 XMX and 160 Xe vector engines. Other hardware specs include 24GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 19 GB/s, 192-bit memory interface, up to 456 GB/s memory bandwidth, 120-200W TBP, 197 TOPS (INT8) of peak compute output, and PCIe 5.0 x8 connectivity. Intel showcased a system with two B60 Dual Turbo graphics cards, totaling 96GB of memory. Both cards were running on default settings without any overclocking or other tweaks for improved performance. With a compatible motherboard, up to four of these cards can be installed in a single workstation for a whopping 192GB of VRAM. The Arc Pro B60 Dual Turbo is designed exclusively for graphics workstations, AI inferencing, and Edge Computing. According to journalists who attended the event and spoke to Intel reps, the company has no plans to release an affordable dual-GPU model with reduced specifications for gamers. Alongside the B60, Intel also debuted the Arc Pro B50, which packs 16 Xe cores, 128 XMX Engines, 170 peak TOPS (INT8), and a 70W TBP. It comes with 16GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit bus interface and 224 GB/s of total bandwidth. Like the B60, it also utilizes a PCIe 5.0 x8 interface. Customer sampling for both the B60 and B50 starts this month, with full availability expected in Q3 of this year. They will initially be available through fully built-up workstations from leading manufacturers, but could be released separately for the DIY market in Q4, once Intel is satisfied with the driver optimization. Image source: Tom's Hardware // Related Stories