Sunday, December 29th 2024
Intel Rumored to Launch Arc Battlemage GPU With 24GB Memory in 2025
Intel could be working on a new Arc graphics card according to Quantum Bits quoted by VideoCardz. It's based on the Battlemage architecture and has 24 GB of memory, twice as much as current models. This new card seems to be oriented more towards professionals, not gamers. Intel's Battlemage lineup currently has the Arc B580 model with 12 GB GDDR6 memory and a 192-bit bus. There's also the upcoming B570 with 10 GB and a 160-bit bus. The new 24 GB model will use the same BGM-G21 GPU as the B580, while the increased VRAM version could use higher capacity memory modules or a dual-sided module setup. No further technical details are available at this moment.
Intel looks to be aiming this 24 GB version at professional tasks such as artificial intelligence jobs like Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. The card would be useful in data centers, edge computing, schools, and research, and this makes sense for Intel as they don't have a high-memory GPU for professional productivity markets yet. The company wants to launch this Arc Battlemage with bigger memory in 2025, we guess it might be announced in late spring or ahead of next year's Computex if there's no rush. Intel in the meantime will keep making their current gaming cards too as the latest Arc series was very well received, a big win for Intel after all the struggles. This rumor hints that Intel's expanding its GPU plan rather than letting it fade away, that was a gray scenario before the launch of Battlemage. Now it seems they want to compete in the professional and AI acceleration markets as well.
Sources:
Quantum Bits, VideoCardz
Intel looks to be aiming this 24 GB version at professional tasks such as artificial intelligence jobs like Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. The card would be useful in data centers, edge computing, schools, and research, and this makes sense for Intel as they don't have a high-memory GPU for professional productivity markets yet. The company wants to launch this Arc Battlemage with bigger memory in 2025, we guess it might be announced in late spring or ahead of next year's Computex if there's no rush. Intel in the meantime will keep making their current gaming cards too as the latest Arc series was very well received, a big win for Intel after all the struggles. This rumor hints that Intel's expanding its GPU plan rather than letting it fade away, that was a gray scenario before the launch of Battlemage. Now it seems they want to compete in the professional and AI acceleration markets as well.
In 2025, Intel plans to launch a larger memory version of the Battlemage series graphics cards, with the capacity increased to 24 GB.
In the future, the existing version will continue to serve consumer markets such as games, while the 24G larger video memory version will target the "productivity market."
The target users of the "productivity market" include data centers, edge computer rooms, education and scientific research, and individual developers.
— Quantum Bits
48 Comments on Intel Rumored to Launch Arc Battlemage GPU With 24GB Memory in 2025
I'm fairly certain you can get much more from this 192-bit 12-gigabyte VRAM buffer than Intel had got so far. GDDR7 (~30 GT/s) + doubling the CU count for starters. Reasonable to make the GPU itself 200 MHz slower so it doesn't burn your house down.
I hope they do it and also do their best to support AI applications
The ARC Xe graphics in my laptop just use the DDR4 I have stuffed into my machine. I would think the ARX Xe as a discrete GPU with 4GB or 8GB VRAM would have done much to get more performance,
for years I've been seeing 16-18GB in use when playing at 4k native plus AA and RT
Although hopefully Intel continues because the market really needs more competition and maybe Intel can take some of the market away that Nvidia has on datacenter and ai.Or you could just not accept a flawed power connector, it got updated to be less crappy for a good reason. And funny enough so far Intel isn't using the new connector.
Intel cannot afford to miss another huge market like they did with mobile (tablets, phones, ect).
And game devs got lazy, so most suffer consolitis.
I think with CAD specifically, well you know how it goes with industrial software. The one unfortunate aspect is by the time they come out with a version that supports it, well getting the companies that rely on it to switch might be a lot of trouble. Design firms maybe, but steel mills or industrial ops as a whole works at a snails pace regardless of OEM backing unfortunately.
The B series does run cool though! So I imagine they would make great (get me a picture on the screen) cards like the A310/80 for office.
The firmware for my intel wifi chip, amd graphic card is closed source. Why else do I need this package "sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20241210-r1" ?
Just saying. No Firmware - no working network connection for my intel wlan. No firmware - just basic Vesa (VGA?) compatibility mode for my Radeon 7800XT.
same for the firmware for the processors / mainboards / bad compiler support
I can not set a fan curve in gnu gentoo linux for my AMD Radeon 7800XT graphic card. last time i tried in summer 2024. No visual tool from AMD - nothing.
Ryzen 5800X - sold / current 7600X have minimum gcc optimisation support. I would expect more for heavily open source support from amd. In my point of view - amd has a little bit of open source support
I want to see coreboot on amd mainboards
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Back to topic: When the price is right and the software works some will buy those cards.
Most of the stuff is just "Cached" whenever it needs it. It prevents from pulling from system DRAM which obviously is slower or might inflict a little performance penalty.
Other then that the whole VRAM debate is quite useless. 12GB is plenty for 1440P. Not even the latest Techpowerup test shows any GPU taxing it's full VRAM.
Not even i manage to get more then 8GB through Doom.