Friday, October 31st 2025

Engineering Driver Reignites Battlemage B770 GPU Speculation

The future of the Intel Arc B770 GPU was already being called into question earlier this year, even before Intel and NVIDIA partnered up for what Intel called "complementary" GPU options. After all, reports as early as March 2025 claimed that the high-end Battlemage GPU project had been cancelled in 2024 already. More recently, however, rumors have surfaced about a potential late 2025 release for Intel's Arc B770 GPU. Now, a recent discovery in an Intel engineering graphics driver (shared by @GOKForFree on X) seems to substantiate the theory that Intel might have one more Arc Battlemage GPU in the chamber.

Specifically, the driver makes mention of the BMG-G31 GPU die—which is the silicon associated with the high-end Intel Arc B770 GPU—and four potential configurations of the high-end Xe2 die. If the leak is accurate, it would indicate that there are three "Pro" GPU configurations and a single consumer GPU—rumors suggested 32 Xe2 cores with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus—spawn from the BMG-G31 die. While it makes sense that there would be multiple professional configurations—perhaps with slightly different NPU, processor, and memory configurations—it makes sense that the remaining consumer GPU would be the rumored Arc B770. Whether the mention of the new GPU indicates that B770 will eventually launch, or if Intel had simply included it in the driver from the start of development, is unclear, but it does suggest that there is significant progress toward an Arc B770.
Source: @GOKForFree on X
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29 Comments on Engineering Driver Reignites Battlemage B770 GPU Speculation

#26
Sol_Badguy
Deorc MearhI read about Celestial everywhere but I haven't read what is capable of compared to the older chips and I have not understood in which igpu they will use it. Not in Panther Lake's for I what I've learnt
Apparently Celestial will be featured in Nova Lake and Razer Lake.
www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-panther-lake-technical-deep-dive/8.html
Panther Lake is Xe3, neither Battlemage (Xe2) nor Celestial (Xe3P).

This video provides more details:
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#27
GeoffreyA
Deorc Mearhthey are doing their phase of RnD and sell interesting experimental cards. I think it's clear it would be dangerous investing in higher segment cards when they still have issues of consumption with a lower number of cores. They are following a logical path to me. I hope this branch of Intel can survive while they improve.
I read about Celestial everywhere but I haven't read what is capable of compared to the older chips and I have not understood in which igpu they will use it. Not in Panther Lake's for I what I've learnt
One gets the impression they are hesitant or have decided not to release the higher-end Battlemage, or not now. There is a ~30W difference between the B570 and B580 with only two more cores, so 12 more must have resulted in an impractical increase.
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#28
Deorc Mearh
GeoffreyAOne gets the impression they are hesitant or have decided not to release the higher-end Battlemage, or not now. There is a ~30W difference between the B570 and B580 with only two more cores, so 12 more must have resulted in an impractical increase.
It might be. Consider they changed their CEO who turned upside down half of the plans and then the government came in and he had to get back on his steps after firing a lot of people.
So we can't be sure this hesitancy concerns performances or consumptions rather than decision makers' instability
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#29
sonjouten
As much as I love my Nvidia GPU and hate Intel's previous failed attempts with an igpu, Intel pulling out of the GPU market altogether is a bad idea.. specifically for the consumer. Even if I never did and never were to use any of the arc GPU 's, their existence was significant enough to keep the GPU I purchased at a price in which I could actually afford.. Nvidia has a practical monopoly on the GPU market, driven in part by its significant capitol advantage being the first "5 trillion dollar company".. not to mention amd is literally ran by the CEO of Nvidia 's cousin (I'm not even joking. Google it.).. but if Intel can find a niche with "budget but still decent gpu's", then there's a possibility you won't need several thousand dollars of "extra" income to continue gaming on a pc this decade .
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