Wednesday, September 25th 2024
Intel Arc "Battlemage" GPU Surfaces with 20 Xe2 Cores, 2.85 GHz Clock Speed, and 12 GB VRAM
Intel's upcoming Arc "Battlemage" G21 GPU has made an appearance in Geekbench benchmarks, offering a glimpse into the future of the company's discrete graphics offerings. This next-generation GPU, part of Intel's Xe2 graphics architecture, shows promising performance that puts it almost on par with the current Arc A770 in initial tests. The benchmark results reveal a GPU with 20 Xe2 cores, translating to 160 CUs. Notably, the chip boasts a clock speed of 2,850 MHz. Equipped with 12 GB of memory, this particular model appears to be targeting the mid-range segment of the market.
Identified by the PCI ID "8086:E20B" and listed as "Intel Xe Graphics RI," the GPU scored 97,943 points in Geekbench 6's OpenCL test. This score places it near the Arc A770 and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060, suggesting competitive performance in its class. The test system paired the Battlemage GPU with an Intel Core i5-13600K CPU and 32 GB of DDR5-4800 memory, providing a solid platform for evaluation. One interesting thing to note is that, while these early benchmarks show weak OpenCL performance, Intel didn't historically target this particular API, and the final performance will be higher in actual games that use DirectX 12 or Vulkan APIs, possibly worthy of competing with NVIDIA and AMD solutions.
Sources:
Geekbench v6, Wccftech, via VideoCardz
Identified by the PCI ID "8086:E20B" and listed as "Intel Xe Graphics RI," the GPU scored 97,943 points in Geekbench 6's OpenCL test. This score places it near the Arc A770 and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060, suggesting competitive performance in its class. The test system paired the Battlemage GPU with an Intel Core i5-13600K CPU and 32 GB of DDR5-4800 memory, providing a solid platform for evaluation. One interesting thing to note is that, while these early benchmarks show weak OpenCL performance, Intel didn't historically target this particular API, and the final performance will be higher in actual games that use DirectX 12 or Vulkan APIs, possibly worthy of competing with NVIDIA and AMD solutions.
33 Comments on Intel Arc "Battlemage" GPU Surfaces with 20 Xe2 Cores, 2.85 GHz Clock Speed, and 12 GB VRAM
Then again, it’s Geekbench. Extrapolating anything from its results is… challenging.
Archmage (and the other Gen 12 GPUs) were akin to a Terascale card forced to run D3D12 and Vulkan, driver hacks made it run. Battlemage is a proper GPU, the driver can actually do its work instead of covering for hardware flaws.
Kudos to the engineers. Hopefully this time the driver supports the whole stack.
Edit: I mean the top configuration with 32XE cores, this one is in the 3060 territory
I get it. Gamers not only want Intel to step up to the plate they need Intel to step up to the plate because of Nvidia abuses but this isn't going to do it. It's still very early to make any kind of meaningful judgement. I'm just going by the info in this article.
By the way, A770 is even lower now, from the last GPU review - www.techpowerup.com/review/xfx-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-magnetic-air/31.html
3070ti is 50% ahead of A770. If Battlemage with 20Xe is on the level of A770, then the full version with 60% more cores must scale linear to beat 3070ti, but it won't and I expect it to land between 3070 and 3070ti or even lower
It it is a midrange Battlemage card we're seeing here, I've got high hopes for the 700 lineup. It's not going to be a strong contender by any means even for current gen in terms of performance, but if the pricing is anywhere near the insanity of Alchemist it's going to make a lot of waves for lower-budget builds.
They better learn about long driver support meanwhile if they want a long standing recognition in the market. What they did to 12.1 was disgusting.
Notice how all of us just assume Blackwell will be overpriced as heck.
www.pcworld.com/article/2467902/report-intel-has-been-eliminated-from-pc-graphics-cards.html
Nothing we can do but speculate so I utilise my chance to do so.
In anycase, it could have more than sufficient bandwidth, with raster/RT computational output falling short of needing that. If Intel's 2024 top end card falls short of a 4070 class GPU - I think that would be said for those who like Intel GPUs.