Wednesday, April 10th 2024
Intel Arc Battlemage Could Arrive Before Black Friday, Right in Time for Holidays
According to the latest report from ComputerBase, Intel had a strong presence at the recently concluded Embedded World 2024 conference. The company officially showcased its Arc series of GPUs for the embedded market, based on the existing Alchemist chips rebranded as the "E series." However, industry whispers hint at a more significant development—the impending launch of Intel's second-generation Arc Xe² GPUs, codenamed "Battlemage," potentially before the lucrative Black Friday shopping season. While Alchemist serves as Intel's current offering for embedded applications, many companies in attendance expressed keen interest in Battlemage, the successor to Alchemist. These firms often cover a broad spectrum, from servers and desktops to notebooks and embedded systems, necessitating a hardware platform that caters to this diverse range of applications.
Officially, Intel had previously stated that Battlemage would "hopefully" arrive before CES 2025, implying a 2024 launch. However, rumors from the trade show floor suggest a more ambitious target—a release before Black Friday, which falls on November 29th this year. This timeline aligns with Intel's historical launch patterns, as the original Arc A380 and notebook GPUs debuted in early October 2022, albeit with a staggered and limited rollout. Intel's struggles with the Alchemist launch serve as a learning experience for the company. Early promises and performance claims for the first-generation Arc GPUs failed to materialize, leading to a stuttering market introduction. This time, Intel has adopted a more reserved approach, avoiding premature and grandiose proclamations about Battlemage's capabilities.
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ComputerBase.de
Officially, Intel had previously stated that Battlemage would "hopefully" arrive before CES 2025, implying a 2024 launch. However, rumors from the trade show floor suggest a more ambitious target—a release before Black Friday, which falls on November 29th this year. This timeline aligns with Intel's historical launch patterns, as the original Arc A380 and notebook GPUs debuted in early October 2022, albeit with a staggered and limited rollout. Intel's struggles with the Alchemist launch serve as a learning experience for the company. Early promises and performance claims for the first-generation Arc GPUs failed to materialize, leading to a stuttering market introduction. This time, Intel has adopted a more reserved approach, avoiding premature and grandiose proclamations about Battlemage's capabilities.
36 Comments on Intel Arc Battlemage Could Arrive Before Black Friday, Right in Time for Holidays
Battlemage - Intel remains below midrange even if they double the performance of Alchemist
RDNA4 - AMD is rumored to only go up to the next gen midrange segment based around $400 and the performance of the 7900XTX
Blackwell - Nvidia is alone at the top. Will they go super high in price?
As for Intel, how many postponements did the previous generation need to actually arrive on the shelves? I can't imagine everything running smoothly now.
considering the leaps and bounds those drivers have matured over the past 2 years I don't see why there should be all that many issues this time over
And I don't expect that many issues. Just enough to not really expect them to release a GPU without any delays.
The one you're replying to is hightlighting how Intel's launch drivers for Battlemage aren't necessarily going to be usable just because Alchemists' drivers are now, just like how the work on iGPUs didn't translate into competent drivers for Alchemist at launch.
Look at this, their fastest GPU is the same as a 5700XT, a mid range card from 5 years ago.
Thing is, Intel is doing good work keeping everyone honest on the lower to mid range. Hopefully, they can break into the high end eventually. We know AMD won't be competitive until Intel forces them to be. They've proven that over the last two generations.
BTW if N48 is 16GB and does achieve 7900 XT/XTX raster and is at least 35% stronger than 7700XT in RT I would buy one to replace aging 2080 Super for sure.
Doesn't sound as good I guess...
I just dont think its a great stance from a market presence perspective. I was impressed by alchemists performance for a first go, but it will take a few generations before they start scratching at the high level cards. Releasing next to them I cant imagine helps them.
Maybe they are going for the cost angle. If someone releases a card for 800 and you are doing 450 it gets your eyes I guess.
In any case sweet! Cant wait for battlemage and celestial what a wild time, Intel descrete cards.
Its virtually as unlikely as AMD abandoning their high end proposition, but we have seen them do it before, the company seems to work on a different kind of logic than most. There is almost no reason for AMD not to push their GPUs further, not in the least because they need them to keep powering consoles.
IMO, just work on the tech, on the drivers, and then make a big boy card
2080 Ti is faster than 1080 Ti by about a third, also being more expensive. It was and still is a horrible $ per FPS release.
3080 Ti is faster than 2080 Ti by about 50 to 60 percent. It's mediocre at best considering the even more so increased price. About 40% $ per FPS improvement.
4090 is faster than 3080 Ti by about the same 50 to 70 percent. Nothing impressive about that, either, since 4090 is so ridiculously expensive.
20 percent is just "you'd better have done nothing" kinda uplift. NV with the major help from AMD are doing their best to gaslight us into thinking it's okay for a next-gen $600 GPU to only outperform last-gen $600 GPUs by a dozen percent. 20 years ago, it was a thing for $100 GPUs to outperform last-gen $200 GPUs by about 100 to 300 percent depending on a game.Never. She never does.
I really do want to have an Intel GPU but none of them fit the description of "6700 XT is a snail compared to them." 'haps the Battlemage will deliver... Knowing Intel, it's a really high possibility. Also knowing Intel, there could be more than a million "buts."
Past a point scaling becomes less and less efficient, that is normal. But AMD's architecture hits that wall far, far sooner, you just need to look at the 7800 XT and the 7900 GRE for the supreme example