Two newly published slides purportedly reveal a potential Intel Arc desktop GPU roadmap through Q3 2024 and the company’s plans for its codenamed Battlemage family of graphics processors.For slides published by red gaming tech If correct, Intel’s family of desktop graphics processors based on the next-generation Xe2-HPG microarchitecture will include two units designed to offer different levels of performance.
Featuring Intel’s Xe2-HPG microarchitecture, the Arc Battlemage family of desktop graphics processors are similar to the company’s Alchemist lineup. It still includes his two GPUs, the BMG-G10 and BMG-G21, which target the sub-225W and sub-150W power envelopes, but this time Intel is eyeing the enthusiast grade market segment as well. According to the slides, Team Blue plans to roll out his high-end BMG-G10 graphics processor in Q2 2024, followed by his BMG-G21 GPU, which is a performance mainstream later in the quarter. Both are expected to rank among the best graphics cards.
Intel’s Arc Battlemage GPU power targets are relatively low-power, yet fast GPUs for graphics cards, rather than targeting the ultra-high-end market segment occupied by AMD and Nvidia, which Intel recently revealed. corresponds to the plan to build the Still, we’re guessing.
To cater to the enthusiast and performance market segments, Intel will significantly revamp the Xe2-HPG microarchitecture. From what we can gather, the new microarchitecture offers improved ray tracing performance, next-generation memory subsystems that support new compression technologies, and new machine learning rendering technologies. The description on the slide is vague to say the least, but that’s to be expected since we’re a year away from Xe2-HPG and Arc Battlemage.
published slides red gaming tech It covers Intel’s plans through Q3 2024, but the date is Q3 2022. That said, plans tend to change quickly, so they’re pretty old at the moment. In fact, we can’t even confirm the authenticity of the slides, so in any case they should be taken with a grain of salt. It means that it will likely predate the launch of , and many things may have changed in the last six months.
One thing that seems pretty odd is that Intel is clearly planning (or at least schedule) will refresh the Arc Alchemist lineup with new “Alchemist+” ACM+ G20 and ACM+ G21 graphics processors in the second half of 2023. With H2, both AMD and Nvidia are likely to introduce next-gen entries, so this doesn’t make much sense. Level and mainstream GPUs leaving Intel’s Arc Alchemist offerings behind and investing heavily in their updated Alchemist+ lineup could be a losing proposition. Use engineering and other resources instead to advance the Battlemage. That may have already happened in the months since.
Additionally, companies tend to introduce updated products based on re-spun versions of their GPUs that significantly improve performance or offer the potential for higher yields and/or improved frequencies. Re-spins of modern GPUs are a very costly undertaking, so chip designers rely on continuous process improvement (CPI) to improve yield and statistical process control (SPC) to Reduce performance variability. In most cases, CPI and SPC improved GPUs won’t even be released as separate products. Meanwhile, Intel’s ACM+ G20 and ACM+ G21 appear to be newer chips.
In any case, the published slides confirm that in Q3 2022 Intel plans to release the Battlemage product lineup in the first half of 2024. We don’t know if the company still intends to roll out these parts at that point, or if they may have shifted forward. now. This unofficial information is at best he provides a snapshot of what Intel had in mind in mid-2022. Hopefully, we can continue to iterate on the Arc GPU and bring more competition to the dedicated graphics card space.
