Sunday, November 17th 2024
Intel Arc "Battlemage" SoC Teaser Points to December Launch
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.
Sources:
Tomasz Gawroński, Bionic_Squash, via VideoCardz
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.
9 Comments on Intel Arc "Battlemage" SoC Teaser Points to December Launch
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.
so it’s perfectly possible nvidia is doing the same
www.researchgate.net/figure/Wafer-layout-of-the-3D-DTC-6-batch-with-indication-of-the-many-different-sensors_fig1_286447839
It wouldn’t be Q4 without Intel shenanigans.
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.