News Intel Arc B580 "Battlemage" GPU boxes appear in shipping manifests — Xe2 may be preparing for its desktop debut in December

[Admin]

Intel has been handing out GPU boxes for the Arc B580 to OEMs since September per shipping manifests on NBD.

Intel Arc B580 "Battlemage" GPU boxes appear in shipping manifests — Xe2 may be preparing for its desktop debut in December : Read more

 

[rluker5]

That can't be right, I kept hearing they were cancelled. Well, definitely cancelled after this gen, for sure this time.
JK, I plan to buy a Battlemage. Hopefully their high end will still come in 2 slot coolers. But to be fair, the novelty of seeing some things done worse and some better is probably worth more to me than many others, and I can always spend more on a different 50 series if I have to. But I do expect pretty good performance for the price.

 

[bit_user]

That can't be right, I kept hearing they were cancelled. Well, definitely cancelled after this gen, for sure this time.
JK

I hope it comes back to bite the clowns who kept spreading those rumors. I'm sure it won't, but I'd really like to see some egg on their faces.

 

[Bokobokosan]

This image is not an official teaser, Gazlog made it themselves.

 

[Eximo]

I will be happy with 4070 like performance, which is the old rumor. It will replace my EVGA 3080 Ti so that can go into my collection.

Also, someone poke EVGA until they start making monitors. I want a monitor that says EVGA because that is hilarious.

 

[User of Computers]

BTM should have a better launch than ACM ever did, with the more established drivers. LNL with the BMG uarch has already been in the market, and the drivers have probably been cooking for much much longer than that.

 

[Mama Changa]

I will be happy with 4070 like performance, which is the old rumor. It will replace my EVGA 3080 Ti so that can go into my collection.

Also, someone poke EVGA until they start making monitors. I want a monitor that says EVGA because that is hilarious.

You're getting that out of the B580 IMO, that would at the very best from a G10 card like B780 and I seriously doubt that will occur either. If you get regular 4070/7800XT performance, it'll be as good as it gets. It would need to be $400 max, but Intel can't really afford to give away these cards like they did with Alchemist.

 

[P.Amini]

Can we stop calling "Graphics Card" or "VGA" a GPU please? It's so freaking confusing and wrong, it's like calling a PC a CPU!

 

[CelicaGT]

Can we stop calling "Graphics Card" or "VGA" a GPU please? It's so freaking confusing and wrong, it's like calling a PC a CPU!

While you are technically correct, GPU is heavily implanted in the PC enthusiast lexicon, dating back to the late 90's. I highly doubt you will see this change. Personally I use "graphics card" as it's the most correct term. GPU is the processor on the card specifically, and VGA is an out of date term that was also a standard at the time (mid-late 80's), generally referring to the cards of the time, as the term "GPU" does now. VGA, VGA cable, or VGA resolution are the terms I recall. D-sub was/is also referred to as a VGA port.

 

[bit_user]

While you are technically correct, GPU is heavily implanted in the PC enthusiast lexicon,

I think the issue is really that you can't buy a GPU separately from the graphics card it's on. Plus, virtually all functional aspects of the graphics card are determined by the GPU model, other than a little bit of variation in clock speeds and sometimes with two choices of memory capacity. That's how they end up being virtually synonymous.

it's like calling a PC a CPU!

By contrast, a CPU is quite distinct from the motherboard or most other aspects of a PC. Telling me which CPU model you have doesn't tell me about the memory capacity, the secondary storage, its graphics card (if any), etc. So, a CPU is more distinct from a PC than a GPU is from a graphics card. Still, even if the analogy is imperfect, I get your point.

I agree that the authors of this site should all know well enough to say "graphics card" when they're talking about the entire card, and GPU when they're talking about just its processing unit.

 

[usertests]

That can't be right, I kept hearing they were cancelled. Well, definitely cancelled after this gen, for sure this time.

I hope it comes back to bite the clowns who kept spreading those rumors. I'm sure it won't, but I'd really like to see some egg on their faces.

It's "effectively cancelled".