Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition Review

Alan Wake 2 is a 2023 survival horror game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing. A sequel to Alan Wake, the story follows best-selling novelist Alan Wake, who has been trapped in an alternate dimension for 13 years, as he attempts to escape by writing a horror story involving an FBI special agent named Saga Anderson. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 27 October 2023. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Northlight. We test using the High preset, FSR set to native resolution, DX12 API.

Our first game of the day is Alan Wake II, where at 1080p the B580 delivers 41fps, putting it dead level with Nvidia's RTX 4060. It's also just a handful of frames behind the RX 7600 and 7600 XT, but delivers a 24% uplift over the A750.

1440p is too stern a test without using some form of upscaling – which we do not test with – but the B580 is still very similar to the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 XT in terms of performance.

Alan Wake II also proved the start of some of our driver struggles that we will document today, with a couple of crashes to desktop during my testing. It's not the end of the world, but I didn't experience crashing in this game with any other GPU, so it's worth noting.

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