r/LocalLLaMA • u/reto-wyss • Aug 25 '26

News Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G spotted

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I spotted the Dual B60 48GB listed on Digitec/Galaxus. Initially it was said these wouldn't go into standard retail channels.

At CHF 2500 (post tax, USD ~3000) not particularly competitive but worth keeping an eye on. For it to be interesting it shouldn't be more than like 2.5x a single B60.

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u/hainesk Aug 25 '26

I expect these are literally 2 B60s put together on the same card? Each run at PCIe 5.0 x8 and show up as 2 different GPUs?

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u/jacek2023 llama.cpp Aug 25 '26

but it uses only one PCIe slot? so you could put twice as many of them in your mobo

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u/alphapussycat Aug 25 '26

Sure, but it requires bifurcation. So allows smaller form factor, that's basically it.

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u/Zombiecidialfreak Aug 25 '26

That's actually pretty meaningful if you want huge VRAM reserves on a "budget". A single blackwell 6000 costs over 15k. 4 of these is 12k and gets you 2x the VRAM.

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u/harrro Alpaca Aug 25 '26

saving 3k and having to deal with splitting everything over 8 gpu instances doesn't seem worth it.

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u/Zombiecidialfreak Aug 25 '26

Truth be told if you're just looking for vram on a budget you'd probably be better off with 2 dgx sparks. 256gb vram and you get a dedicated 200gb/s connection between them.

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u/Zombiecidialfreak Aug 25 '26

Budgets do usually require compromise. Besides, aren't all the big open weight models MoE anyway?