ASUS has listed the UGen Arc Pro B70 32GB on its official website, marking the company first workstation graphics card powered by Intel Arc silicon. The hardware targets local artificial intelligence workloads through a high power 290W configuration and 32GB of ECC memory. ASUS has not announced official pricing or release dates yet, though reference versions currently sell near $1200 to $1300.
ASUS bypassed both the consumer Alchemist and Battlemage desktop cycles. Its previous discrete Intel model dates back to the passively cooled Iris Xe DG1 4G from several years ago. Instead of placing this card in the creator focused ProArt line, ASUS assigned it to the UGen AI accelerator brand, alongside the UGen300 USB device showcased at CES. This release places ASUS in direct competition with existing B70 models from ASRock, Sparkle, and Maxsun.
The card uses the full BMG G31 die built on 32 Xe2 cores and 256 XMX engines. Memory runs on 32GB of GDDR6 ECC over a 256 bit bus, producing 608 GB/s of bandwidth. ASUS sets the boost clock to 2800 MHz and advertises compute speeds reaching 367 INT8 TOPS. Operating power sits at 290W, which represents the maximum limit of the official 160W to 290W Intel specification range, well above the 230W reference default.
Cooling relies on a dual slot blower fan setup suited for dense workstation cases. ASUS allows users to link 4 cards inside a single workstation, creating a combined 128GB pool of VRAM. This total memory allows systems to process local AI models containing up to 120 billion parameters. While Intel originally introduced the card at $949, market retail listings hover closer to $1300, leaving the final ASUS price tag as the deciding factor for its market adoption.
