Tuesday, August 29th 2023
Intel Arc Alive & Well for Next-gen - Battlemage GPU Spotted During Malaysia Lab Tour
HardwareLuxx's editor, Andreas Schilling, was invited by Intel Tech Tour to attend a recent press event at the company's manufacturing facility and test labs in Malaysia. Invited media representatives were allowed to observe ongoing work on next generation client and data center-oriented products. He posted a short summary of these observations via social media: "I've seen wafers with Emerald Rapids XCC on them, that were being cut. Not a surprise at all, but still...also MTL682_C0, so Meteor Lake with 6 P-Cores, 8 E-Cores and GT2 Graphic Tile tested in a C0 stepping and finally the Failure Lab already saw BMG G10 - Battlemage is real." We have been hearing mixed mutterings about the status of Team Blue's next-gen Arc GPU technology, with more concrete evidence of its existence popping up around mid-August—namely in the shape of two Battlemage interposers, BGA2362-BMG-X2 and BGA2727-BMG-X3, uploaded to Intel's DESIGN-iN Tools website.
Schilling elaborated further in his full report: "In the Failure Analysis Lab, we came across a tray that evidently contained chips from the next Arc generation - at least, there were already corresponding chips in the analysis, which were clearly labeled as BMG G10." This chip looks to be lined up to succeed the current Alchemist ACM-G10 GPU, as seen on Intel Arc A750 and A770 discrete graphics cards. A leaked product roadmap shows Intel targeting a Battlemage launch around Q2 - Q3 2024, with the aforementioned G10 having a TDP rating of <225 W, as well as another variant—G21—rated for a maximum power consumption of 150 W.
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Schilling elaborated further in his full report: "In the Failure Analysis Lab, we came across a tray that evidently contained chips from the next Arc generation - at least, there were already corresponding chips in the analysis, which were clearly labeled as BMG G10." This chip looks to be lined up to succeed the current Alchemist ACM-G10 GPU, as seen on Intel Arc A750 and A770 discrete graphics cards. A leaked product roadmap shows Intel targeting a Battlemage launch around Q2 - Q3 2024, with the aforementioned G10 having a TDP rating of <225 W, as well as another variant—G21—rated for a maximum power consumption of 150 W.
29 Comments on Intel Arc Alive & Well for Next-gen - Battlemage GPU Spotted During Malaysia Lab Tour
this could be a tempting offering instead of tedious process handpicking a cpu and combining it with a different gpu.
My suggestion is give the battlemage generous VRAM at least 16GB and make it exceed the 4060ti, as such people will not wait in this price class for 5000 series.
So lowest spec bm gpu + lowest spec 6 performance core cpu and a steam voucher instead of a forced game, what a dream!
Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB
Radeon RX 6750 XT 12GB
Radeon RX 7700 XT 12GB
Radeon RX 6800 16GB
Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB
Radeon RX 6800 XT 16GB
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Could you also list a cpu both intel and amd for around 150 eur which is power efficient in idle and can do some gaming with medium aspirations? Possibly combined with your 6700xt
We've gone over this in many threads before. The difference between a 3090ti and the 6900xt amounted to $50 a year, assuming 8 hours of full throttle use 365 days a year.
You CANNOT afford $300+ GPUs in $50 in electricity a year is a major issue for you.
Buy the performance you want. If power use is a concern, stop playing videogames and get a job that pays $50 more a year so you can afford to game.
Undervolting, Vsync, there's another feature in the drivers that actually helps tone the power down, i mean, who really need 400FPS ?
The 4060 is simply way more power efficient as the 6700 XT.. When a pc for mixed tasks office, video streaming and gaming is on
say minimum 12 hours a day if not sometimes 14, 365 days a year why you stop me being power efficient in next built?
Not to mention the electricity prices in future could very well double again.
If you do calculate the difference for just a medium spec pc with your jet turbine setting (staying in full throttle jargon) high end
the difference is not small, unless you are so rich that say in 10 years time you don't care about saving between 1000 and 2000 dollars.
Not to mention saving on not needing say your 'premium' set up another easily 1000 dollars.
All cards have v-sync , no card has to waste power , that's optional.
Personally I don't care what you buy, but I do hope battlemage is good.
It's definitely nice to hear it's not canned but I do hope it won't take a further three years of press releases before it releases.
RTX 4080 performance in blender & stable diffusion and RTX 4070 performance in games?
Sign me up.
I have yet to see a pricing that says "this is the only gpu to consider for this budget, nothing comes close for this price" and if its not happening now, it most def wont happen with a better product like battlemage, they will jsut get more cocky.
P.S.
Yeah, I am NEVER going to understand people with high/top end GPU's complaining about electricity costs. Sorry, just no.