Intel Arc Pro B70: 32GB GDDR6 GPU at $949 — New Budget Option for Local LLM Inference

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Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB GDDR6 VRAM at $949, launching March 31. Memory bandwidth is 608 GB/s (slightly below RTX 5070), 290W TDP. For local LLM inference, 32GB VRAM at this price point undercuts NVIDIA options significantly — the RTX 5090 with 32GB costs over 3x more. Community benchmarks show Qwen3.5-397B-A17B achieves 20 tok/s TG on a single 5090 with DDR4 RAM offload. The B70 could open a new budget tier for running 30B+ parameter models locally.