Intel's Arc Pro B70 has climbed faster than AMD's 32GB Radeon AI Pro R9700, and memory costs alone can't explain why

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Seven months after launching at $949, Intel's Arc Pro B70 is listed at Newegg for as much as $2,399, more than double its suggested starting price. Intel's Arc Pro B70 has climbed faster than AMD's 32GB Radeon AI Pro R9700, and memory costs alone can't explain why ⓘ Intel Seven months after launching at $949, Intel's Arc Pro B70 is listed at Newegg for as much as $2,399, more than double its suggested starting price. Intel is a semiconductor and electrical company based in Santa Clara. AMD is an electrical and semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, and its products and services include computer hardware.

Rahim Amir Noorali , Published 10/27/2026 Intel AI GPU Server/Datacenter Desktop Intel launched the Arc Pro B70 on March 25 with a suggested starting price of $949 for its own reference card. The same GPU is available, however, for $1,800 on Amazon, though the site carries a "high price" disclaimer.

Reporting that 30% rise, Tom's Hardware noted that "the component crisis continues to wreak havoc across the computer industry," and found a roughly 26% increase in Germany and a far steeper one in South Korea, where price aggregator Danawa showed the B70 going from ₩1,889,980 on July 21 to ₩2,798,980 by August 16, a 48% jump. Marketplace sellers account for the highest prices, but even the cheapest card a US store sells directly now costs 58% more than at launch.

Built on the full "Big Battlemage" BMG-G31 die, it pairs 32 Xe2 cores with 32GB of ECC GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus. At that price, it undercut AMD's 32GB Radeon AI Pro R9700 by $350 and cost roughly half as much as Nvidia's 24GB RTX Pro 4000, which made it an obvious pick for running large language models locally.

German retailers now list the card from €1,599, including VAT. The climb has been steady, not sudden.

ASRock's Creator sold for $999.99 at Newegg as recently as July, before a hike at the start of August took it to $1,299.99. B&H was already listing Intel's reference card at $1,779.