Monday, August 12th 2024
Intel Arc "Battlemage" Graphics Card with 12GB of 19 Gbps GDDR6 Memory Surfaces
A prototype discrete GPU based on the Intel Arc "Battlemage" graphics architecture was spotted in a public boot log by Intel GFX Continuous Integration group. The group is probably testing a prototype discrete GPU with a Linux driver. The OS loads its driver at boot, which puts out a few messages in the boot log, including explicit mention of "Battlemage" as BMG. It also mentions its memory size to be 12 GB, a memory speed of 19 Gbps, and a memory bus width of 192-bit.
It is hence likely that this is a mid-tier GPU from the series, with the top tier one probably featuring a 256-bit memory interface. This aligns with Intel's strategy of targeting the bulk of the gaming graphics market, instead of gunning for the enthusiast class. The new "Battlemage" architecture is expected to make Intel contemporary against rival architectures in the segment, such as NVIDIA "Ada" and AMD RDNA 3, although it remains to be seen if it can square off against the next-generation NVIDIA "Blackwell" and AMD RDNA 4.
Source:
HotHardware
It is hence likely that this is a mid-tier GPU from the series, with the top tier one probably featuring a 256-bit memory interface. This aligns with Intel's strategy of targeting the bulk of the gaming graphics market, instead of gunning for the enthusiast class. The new "Battlemage" architecture is expected to make Intel contemporary against rival architectures in the segment, such as NVIDIA "Ada" and AMD RDNA 3, although it remains to be seen if it can square off against the next-generation NVIDIA "Blackwell" and AMD RDNA 4.
30 Comments on Intel Arc "Battlemage" Graphics Card with 12GB of 19 Gbps GDDR6 Memory Surfaces
i hope they have something above 24
it's 2024 not 1990 where drawing an 8bit sprite a millisecond faster than the competition gave you an edge on the market.
there is no one else that can enter the market in a significant manner.
Intel has done a load of things that are bad.
The stuff they are being crapped upon now still is BS considering they offered a fix and restitution for those affected.
Your description of Intel has no basis in reality.
Edit: Apple entered the market with a super fast GPU solution. There is no reason why Samsung, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Google, Tesla, etc couldn’t do the same if they wanted to. Even ARM and Imagination Technologies could have a go. Most here see only Nvidia, AMD and Intel as the only players in chip tech. Its a shame really because so much cool stuff including graphics are coming from others.
AMD is an extremely overvalued bubble (like many of the companies in that list and we're in for a correction 2008 style)
don't look at those numbers they are only interesting if you are an investor or the company it self that wants to loan some money for a project.
Intel is a massive ~120.000 personnel company doing a boat load of projects, they can fire 23000 people (size of amd) and still be a massive company with engineers to spare.
and it's still doing ok compared to the state AMD was in after a flop.
But that wasn't what i was trying to say, Just amd and nvidia isn't serious competition which should be obvious by now, an ideal situation would be +5 competitors.
But there is no way we are ever going to see 5 companies competing for that market.
Having intel as a third player is a good thing, it would be cool if say samsung or huawei were to buy Imagination Technology and would enter the discreet graphic market but i can't see that happening.
and sure it would be nice if AMD were to have some success with RDNA 4, but since it's amd they are going to price it over what nvidia is asking just like they have always demanded more than what intel did if they happened to have something that performed better.
If windows on ARM don't take off, QC is just going to dip out. The dGPU market isn't a viable fallback.
Realistically, we shouldn't expect someone else to try and get into that market unless they have a strong presence in the mainstream for at least a decade. Even when Intel was at its peak, they've been very cautious about entering that market.
Apple GPUs are fast for an SoC, but they still have a steep hill to climb before they hang with Nvidia and AMDs high-end. And that's with their virtually infinite R&D money and being TSMC's favorite customer.
These days, managing more texture isn't really an issue anymore. The impact of using more texture is minimal and it's still one of the greatest visual upgrade you can get on any games. And the fact that memory size have stayed relatively flat for the last few generation is one of the reason why games today don't look that much more different than few years ago when the first 8 GB+ GPU were launched.
The top end GPU might have more but they are probably still too rare for spending a lot of budget on it.
Anyway, a low end GPU with more rams will be able to use higher texture settings and get better visual. Also, they might be less subject to stutter because most low end GPU have slower PCI-E link
One thing What is his name Jetson or something? said. AMD has the best marketing strategy as it doesn't matter how bad some releases are, they still sell.
It might be true in some extremely rare example but HWUB proved that even low end GPUs benefit from additional VRAM. The simple fact of the matter is, even with a small memory bus having more data accessible in the higher bandwidth lower latency VRAM instead of the main system memory or on disk is going to be superior. You'd literally have to choke the VRAM off to the point of it being slower than accessing main system memory.
Doesn't change the fact that we are in an insane bubble, companies are being traded at rates they couldn't possibly earn in decades. That doesn't last. Apple has Jack ****, no one is playing games on their apples now they have a "super fast GPU" because apple doesn't bother writing drivers for games especially older games.
Which is what intel did and does, google isn't going to do that either nor is qualcomm or Imagination Technologies (some Chinese company is failing hard at it)...
Unless somehow a super mega new thing everyone wants and needs like a deepdive VR like that anime 'Sword art Online' as to no one caring about their old games anymore.
Forget about a new entrant to the GPU market.
According to the rumors - Battlemage is topping out at around 4070ti gaming performance.
Looking at the TPU GPU database - that is 4k performance, averaging over 90fps.
Last time I checked, that and below is about 95% of the market.