Intel Arc "Battlemage" GPU Surfaces with 20 Xe2 Cores, 2.85 GHz Clock Speed, and 12 GB VRAM

[RUSerious]

Where you saw wider bus and faster memory? The A770 with 16gb has 256 bit and 560GB/s the top battlemage is again 256bit with 610GB/s. Its exactly the oposite, significantly faster card with just 10% faster memory. Well at this performance level the bandwidth doesn't matter(source 3070 vs 3070ti), but still. Also this won't be middle class card, you can't call the 3070 performance released in 2020 middle clas in 2025 when it will be slower or on par with 5060, the rebranded 5050 as 5060

Bad memory, sorry. Pneumonia sucks. Hopefully @Darmok N Jalad is correct. The rtx 4070 ti only had a bandwidth of 504GB/sec. Don't know if NV memory compression algo is better or not.
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.

 

[Minus Infinity]

I expressed myself wrongly, I mean the top configuration with 32Xe cores will be at 3070-3070ti level, the 20Xe version is not worth even to be mentioned

By the way, A770 is even lower now, from the last GPU review - https://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
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Original goals for G10 the top tier Battlemage were 4070 Ti RT and 4080 raster. These were downgraded and even if they are at 4070 RT and raster it'll need to be very cheap with Blackwell and RDNA4 appearing in next 3-9 months.

 

[R0H1T]

I think that would be said for those who like Intel GPUs.

It would be so much worse for Intel, unless of course they're selling it for huge profits!

They need to get close to 4090, yeah, I know easier said than done, and maintain good margins to continue their dGPU push!

 

[Caring1]

All I want is for it to be energy efficient, low cost and better than their current best, eg the A770 which is really a mid range card.

 

[RUSerious]

It would be so much worse for Intel, unless of course they're selling it for huge profits!

They need to get close to 4090, yeah, I know easier said than done, and maintain good margins to continue their dGPU push!

That just doesn't seem to be Intel's goal at present. The are investing well in drivers right now, but less so in GPU design from what I can tell. They are aiming for low to mid-range to get volume up. If Intel had hit the original top end performance targets that @Minus Infinity posted, they would be in a good place.

 

[InVasMani]

Go Intel. I don't even remotely expect Intel to go after the high end Sadly Nvidia owns that . Bur more competition in the mid to lower end I'm all for it,, Competition not only helps to keep prices in check but also breeds innovation.

Nvidia has become a unchecked problem in high end GPU space. They don't face any real competition in that market space and the more Intel/AMD are at each other's throats in CPU/GPU space the bigger that situation spirals out of control with Nvidia benefiting in a free high end GPU monopoly landscape because their focused primarily on that market segment while other two half their focus split between CPU/GPU markets. They need real laser focused competition in high end GPU space, but we're not about to get that the way things stand currently. They've effectively got a monopoly in that part of the market because there is no competition in sight.

 

[Craptacular]

The following is probably the article he was referring too. The title is misleading. The article isn't saying Battlemage is cancelled. Just pointing out how irrelevant Intel's presence is in dGPU as it's fallen below 1% and the chart rounds it down to 0%. btw Google is your friend.

Report: Intel has been eliminated from PC graphics cards

According to a new report, sales of PC graphics cards have reached a surprising high, driven almost entirely by Nvidia and with zero contribution from Intel.

www.pcworld.com

That is actually why I asked uftfa for the link because all I was finding was that article which doesn't say anything about Battlemage being cancelled.

 

[lexluthermiester]

doesn't say anything about Battlemage being cancelled.

That's because it hasn't.

 

[64K]

That is actually why I asked uftfa for the link because all I was finding was that article which doesn't say anything about Battlemage being cancelled.

He misunderstood it because of the chart probably. The 0% didn't mean anything had been cancelled. The chart just rounded Intel market share down to 0% because it had fallen below 1%. There should have been a note within the chart perhaps because a lot of people don't read the actual articles these days they just look at pictures, charts and videos and the title was misleading so that's on the PCWorld editors.