News Intel Battlemage desktop GPUs to launch before end of year, report claims

[Admin]

Intel’s next generation Battlemage desktop cards are slated to land before 2024 ends according to ZDNet Korea, but gaming might not be the GPU’s primary focus.

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[bit_user]

Is Intel rumored to be doing a 16 GB / 256-bit card, this generation? Or is 12 GB / 192-bit as big as Battlemage is going to get?

 

[DS426]

The irony of a GPU family being called Battlemage and then ending up being marketed more toward AI than gaming.

 

[thestryker]

Is Intel rumored to be doing a 16 GB / 256-bit card, this generation? Or is 12 GB / 192-bit as big as Battlemage is going to get?

I wouldn't bet on anything other than this one coming to market at this point. Rumors have pointed at 20, 24, 32 and 64 Xe2-core parts at varying times. All of the actual benchmark type leaks have pointed towards the B580 and that's it. I hope there's more, but as long as there's a good reason for limited SKUs I think it'd be okay.

Given that Celestial is going to make an appearance in PTL it may make sense to just do existing wafer allocation for Battlemage and that's it. Due to the market trend of increasing time between generations along with cut downs and refreshes I could see the logic. If Celestial is a similar increase as Battlemage is to Alchemist and on target for discrete launch they could potentially be driving mid generation perf/$. This would leave AMD/nvidia with no choice but to cede ground or cut margins. Then of course Druid could still be on the roadmap which in theory would be launching around the same time as whatever nv60/amd9000 is.

This is obviously the most optimistic outlook as to the situation, but I think it's the only way Intel can truly compete in the discrete market otherwise I sadly expect it to be dropped.

Edit: new leak confirms 20 Xe2-core configuration for the B580: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-a...rms-20-xe2-cores-12gb-vram-and-2-85-ghz-clock