News Intel Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPUs rumored to arrive next month — ahead of AMD RDNA 4 and Nvidia Blackwell

[Admin]

Renowned leaker Golden Pig Upgrade Pack alleges that Intel will launch its next-gen Battlemage desktop GPUs next month.

Intel Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPUs rumored to arrive next month — ahead of AMD RDNA 4 and Nvidia Blackwell : Read more

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I wonder if this will be the last GPU we see from Intel for a while!? I figure it's just a matter of time that the GPU division, which can't be making money, is cut. The market is too hard to penetrate with nVIdia monopoly, and AMD even struggling to gain market share. I just don't see how this works for Intel in anyway.

 

[why_wolf]

To late. Threw done some money on a 4070 Ti Super yesterday. Not going to wait around to see how bad pricing gets later.

 

[thisisaname]

Will it be announced or released?. To me it is not released if you can not buy it.

 

[thisisaname]

I wonder if this will be the last GPU we see from Intel for a while!? I figure it's just a matter of time that the GPU division, which can't be making money, is cut. The market is too hard to penetrate with nVIdia monopoly, and AMD even struggling to gain market share. I just don't see how this works for Intel in anyway.

They want some of the AI magic to make their share price go up.

 

[dwd999]

For me the question will be how much better do these gpus with Intel's Xe2-HPG architecture perform when compared to the igpus built into the new Core Ultra 200 class cpus. If they won't perform substantially better than what I'll be getting when I buy a Core Ultra 9 285K then they won't be of any use to me.

 

[bit_user]

I will buy, if it works in Linux and doesn't consume loads of power at idle, which was one of the main negatives about Alchemist for me. I didn't even mind the A770's performance, all that much, and it had all the features I wanted (AI, ray tracing, good OpenCL stack, AV1 acceleration, 16 GB of RAM). I just need something that isn't going to burn 40W of power just to show the desktop.

 

[DS426]

I wonder if this will be the last GPU we see from Intel for a while!? I figure it's just a matter of time that the GPU division, which can't be making money, is cut. The market is too hard to penetrate with nVIdia monopoly, and AMD even struggling to gain market share. I just don't see how this works for Intel in anyway.

The last discrete GPU we see from Intel for awhile, yes, I'm one to believe so given their 15% labor force reduction. It takes huge R&D funds to even somewhat compete with nVidia on dGPU's, and even AMD (even as they lose market share themselves). Intel has lost money from Arc Alchemist, and it's hard to see how they'll do much better than break-even for Battlemage when AMD and Intel are release new product soon as well. Battlemage's advantage is holiday sales if this release timeframe is true, but some to many will still wait to see how all three competitors stack up against each other.

 

[thestryker]

I think Intel learned a very hard lesson with the Arc launch so it definitely makes sense to be quiet until releasing a product. In general I hope the recent launches are more indicative of how things will go where they acknowledge the existence but don't really talk about it until there's something real to show.

There's no indication that Intel is slowing graphics hardware development so the question will mostly what markets they play in. PTL uses Celestial for IGP so we know that the first 3 generations of Arc hardware are at least real. Whether or not this translates to anything outside of integrated solutions is anyone's guess as nothing has been said.

I can't imagine they'll release anything that ticks the fast/efficient/cost boxes I'd need to buy a new video card, but I'm hoping they release something that can make a splash in the market.