News Intel Arc B580 GPU exposed by reviewer as Intel and AIBs subtly tease Battlemage's Dec 3 launch

[Admin]

Intel's upcoming B580 launching on December 3rd at 9 AM ET has already landed in reviewers' hands.

Intel Arc B580 GPU exposed by reviewer as Intel and AIBs subtly tease Battlemage's Dec 3 launch : Read more

 

[ezst036]

Hopefully there is something good to say about the drivers.

 

[Mindstab Thrull]

I think give Battlemage a year and the drivers should be sufficiently settled to make them a solid recommendation. Look how far it went for Alchemist to go from Day One to decently usable. I'd say Celestial will be the start of largely needing just card-specific and game-specific updates (like where Nvidia and AMD are) rather than needing major across-the-board patches like Alchemist needed. Give Battlemage a year though and I'm willing to give Intel dGPUs a try.

Mindstab Thrull

 

[Elusive Ruse]

Hopefully there is something good to say about the drivers.

Intel must be confident about their performance and stability considering they have made a conscious to release their new gen before AMD and Nvidia.

 

[P.Amini]

Though I will not upgrade my own graphics card anytime soon and I really don't play games much (if at all) anymore but as an enthusiast I am excited about the second generation of Intel discrete graphics cards as it is a good news, big and important and I hope they continue. I am excited about upcoming AMD GPUs too as I am very excited about (potentially) new technologies that the leader (NVIDIA) will bring, though I will be disappointed and sad when I see their price increases.

 

[P.Amini]

BTW GPU is the processor and the whole board is the graphics card

 

[gamer1227]

Hopefully there is something good to say about the drivers.

Probably much better than Alchemist.

BattleMage architecture is the same as the Lunar Lake iGPU (Xe2), so Intel had a few months to improve them, and most of the work will be reused for the desktop cards.

 

[Notton]

Intel must be confident about their performance and stability considering they have made a conscious to release their new gen before AMD and Nvidia.

Rumors suggest 4060Ti performance, which would be fine, I guess.
Nvidia and AMD like to launch their top end first, and drip feed the lesser models.
The RTX 4060/Ti/16GB didn't launch until 8 months after the RTX 4090 launched.
That's not to say Nvidia/AMD couldn't change their plans, depending on how successful the B580/B570 is.

But I think Battlemage was delayed because Alchemist launched in October.
An October launch would have given B580 a full year before the impending RTX 5060/Ti and RX 8600/XT launches.