Intel Arc Pro B70 nears $949 launch

This is the first Intel GPU launch in a while that feels aimed at the actual local-LLM market rather than gamers in disguise, and the official support-page listing makes it feel more like a countdown than a rumor. If the price and software story hold, the B70 could become the Arc card people actually recommend for self-hosted inference.

• –32GB of VRAM is the real headline, because capacity matters more than raw frame rates for 4-bit Qwen 3.5 27B and similar midsize local models
• –Roughly 600 GB/s of bandwidth and a 290W board power make it a capacity-and-price play, not a throughput leader
• –Intel’s support-page listing and its vLLM/LLM-Scaler work are the swing factors, since Arc’s biggest problem has been software friction rather than just hardware
• –The B65 sibling suggests Intel is binning the same G31 silicon into a real workstation ladder, which is healthier than a single halo SKU
• –Availability will decide the outcome: if Intel ships volume, this could pressure used RTX 3090s and entry workstation cards; if not, it stays a Reddit favorite