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Intel Arc "Battlemage" SoC Teaser Points to December Launch

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Intel's discrete GPUs are close, and recent reports indicate Intel will reveal its next-generation Arc Battlemage graphics cards in December, moving from an earlier expected Black Friday announcement. Hardware insider Golden Pig Upgrade first mentioned this timeline shift, with data researcher Tomasz Gawroński providing supporting evidence through shipping manifest analysis. The December timing appears to position Intel's announcement before CES 2025, where AMD plans to showcase its Radeon RX 8000 series with RDNA 4 architecture, and NVIDIA will present its GeForce RTX 50 line. This will give Intel ample room to "steal" the attention of the tech press, who will be busy with NVIDIA and AMD during CES.

X account Bionic_Squash has confirmed Battlemage won't be Intel's final discrete graphics card, addressing questions about the company's long-term graphics development plans. Intel's future roadmap includes the Xe3 "Celestial" architecture, though current information only confirms its initial implementation in mobile chips at a reduced scale. The timeline for a full discrete graphics card using Celestial architecture remains unspecified. We are also left to wonder about Intel's approach to discrete GPU marketing push, as the company has yet to gain any significant footing among enthusiasts. In the coming years, Intel's expansion could prove worthwhile as it updates its GPUs with more performance from newer generations.



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Yup I updated my flash tool to support an un named SOC4. That and the speed of the Linux drivers I would believe it.
 
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A battle for scraps!

Which could be quite significant, if Nvidia completely shifts it's priorities to AI acceleration, and even launch RTX 5080 and 5090 mainly for home AI acceleration needs, puts the price extremely high and stock low to keep fabrication almost exclusively for server accelerators. And postpones lower end cards to sometime after the summer of 2025.
 
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A battle for scraps!

Which could be quite significant, if Nvidia completely shifts it's priorities to AI acceleration, and even launch RTX 5080 and 5090 mainly for home AI acceleration needs, puts the price extremely high and stock low to keep fabrication almost exclusively for server accelerators. And postpones lower end cards to sometime after the summer of 2025.
For sensors they put different die sizes on the wafers to have better yields.
so it’s perfectly possible nvidia is doing the same

 
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Tease before Xmas to stave off any competing GPU holiday purchases until stock becomes available in 2025.

It wouldn’t be Q4 without Intel shenanigans.
 
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Yup I updated my flash tool to support an un named SOC4. That and the speed of the Linux drivers I would believe it.

I just tried sparkle arc310 in my NAS yesterday, for photoprism AI and maybe jellyfin.

They still do not have temp sensor and fan control, despite change log and fan revs from 3000 to 4000 RPM while iaround 30C. Missing huc firmware, it also acts weird during boot. It was a bit shitshow. Plugged it out, I am good with AVX512 there for now

Or that is only in the out of tree driver again? Basically good luck Intel.
 
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I am not confident on reality prices after the Trump Tariffs hit us. I will see if I can find a new 7900xtx for around $700 or see what intel has for 4k..
 

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Would Intel support officially the VR with Battlemage? They have missing implementation for the OpenXR standard.
 
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