Intel’s second technology of Arc desktop GPUs, the structure for which is codenamed Battlemage, could possibly be arriving in 2024, beating each AMD and Nvidia to the next-gen punch, if the most recent rumors are to be believed. Each AMD and Nvidia’s subsequent technology of GPUs are anticipated to reach in early 2025, so if an Intel Arc Battlemage launch date does arrive this facet of the brand new yr, it might significantly bolster the corporate’s place within the graphics card market.
Intel‘s first spherical of Arc GPUs weren’t precisely the rapid greatest graphics card information contenders, significantly due to their dodgy sport stability and compatibility once they first launched. Nonetheless, after many common driver updates within the intervening couple of years, they’ve change into solidly dependable choices, simply with out the top-tier efficiency of AMD and Nvidia’s competing choices. Battlemage, although, is predicted to carry a major bounce in efficiency.
The brand new Intel Arc Balttemage launch date rumor comes from a person on Chinese language web site Wiebo.com (and involves us by way of Videocardz), who claims they attended an “inner alternate” assembly between Intel and Asus. At this assembly, it was reportedly revealed that “Intel will launch new GPUs by the top of the yr with vital efficiency enhancements” (machine translation).
With so little to go on, it’s subsequent to unimaginable to attract any significant conclusions about simply how vital these efficiency enhancements is likely to be, and whether or not “by the top of the yr” means December 31 or properly in time for the vacation season.
All that mentioned, now we have seen earlier Intel Battlemage specs leaks earlier than, which have even revealed some benchmark numbers. Two Battlemage graphics playing cards broke cowl as new entries within the SiSoftware benchmark database, and revealed information such because the Xe core counts, clock speeds, and VRAM capability of two new GPUs.
Each playing cards had been apparently outfitted with 8MB of L2 cache, 12GB of VRAM, and a 1.8GHz clock velocity, however have totally different Xe Core counts and Vector Engines. Notably, on this benchmark, one in every of these GPUs truly carried out worse than the Intel Arc A750, so it’s very a lot nonetheless early days by way of understanding how these new chips would possibly carry out.
As for AMD and Nvidia’s next-generation GPUs, we count on AMD RDNA 4 graphics playing cards to reach both later this yr or early subsequent yr, with the unhappy rumor being that AMD isn’t anticipated to compete with Nvidia for the highest finish of the graphics card market.
In the meantime, we will count on to see Nvidia’s Blackwell RTX 5000 sequence playing cards once more both later this yr or extra doubtless early subsequent yr, with Nvidia’s upcoming flagship RTX 5090 anticipated to be as a lot as 50% sooner than the RTX 4090 in some situations.
