Intel Partner Prepares Dual Arc "Battlemage" B580 GPU with 48 GB of VRAM

[AleksandarK]

If you recall NVIDIA's GTX TITAN Z GPU with two GPU dies and an impressive 6 GB of memory, it was a big deal at the time and quite an interesting engineering solution. Today, thanks to sources close to VideoCardz, we learn that Intel's Arc "Battlemage" B580 could get the next dual GPU, dual VRAM treatment. According to the source, an unnamed Intel add-in board partner is preparing to launch a GPU with two B580 dies and 48 GB of VRAM. This means that the 24 GB VRAM version of the Arc B580 we saw in EEC filings is basically confirmed, and that some models will be out for display very soon. While the BMG-G21 chip offers up to 20 Xe cores and 2,560 shader units, a dual BMG-G21 configuration will yield 40 Xe cores and 5,120 shader units working in tandem with 48 GB of VRAM.

Clearly, this model is mostly tailored to AI enthusiasts. No game (thankfully) requires 48 GB of VRAM for now, but it is still nonetheless an interesting solution to see. It has been a while since we got something like a TITAN Z, even in high-end form factors. There is a rumored Intel Arc PRO A60/B60 card carrying a B580 die with 24 GB of VRAM, tailored for local AI workloads and professional visualization. This GPU could be the base for the newly rumored dual B580, 48 GB SKU from an unnamed Intel AIB partner. We expect to hear more details at Computex, which is now just a week away!



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[AleksandarK]

Excuse the poor photoshop in the photo. But I imagine this is how the card will look like.

 

[Kwadratowicz]

hmm, is there a way to install system on vram ? (It's just loose thought )
But nevertheless it's interesting.
I looked at it, and I've found that it is Photoshop cause of the lanes from GPU to bottom, and imprints of the thermal-pads
Edit, If You could add info about photoshop into the picture itself, cause it could add misinterpretation.

 

[Haile Selassie]

Missing a PCIe bridge or lane splitter unless it only works with bifurcation capable motherboards. Also I don't believe Intel has multi GPU video driver nor does any modern game engine has support for multiple renderers anymore. This would be purely for compute.

 

[LabRat 891]

Excuse the poor photoshop in the photo. But I imagine this is how the card will look like.

Needs a gen4 PCIe switch, unless the rumor is that'll req. bifurcation. -which, isn't unreasonable given the applications.

 

[TPUnique]

Very exciting, but I dread just thinking at the idle power consumption

 

[kondamin]

i don’t see the point, just use 2 cards

 

[Quicks]

Heading B850 / B580

 

[TPUnique]

i don’t see the point, just use 2 cards

and what happens when you dont have enough pcie slots or bad lane allocation between them

 

[Dirt Chip]

Every GPU maker need to pass that stage in life. I guess Intel come to it's age, finally

 

[Adrian Andrzejewski]

DejaVooDoo.

 

[InVasMani]

PCIE 5.0 x8/x8 is plenty of bandwidth especially if it's CXL with shared memory pooling between them.

 

[ernorator]

"Battlemages" BB1160

 

[lambda]

I haven't played around with Intel GPUs, if they are any good for compute then this might be a worthwhile competitor to the 3090 for the VRAM hungry LLM crowd.

 

[kondamin]

and what happens when you dont have enough pcie slots or bad lane allocation between them

you get a motherboard that does and will very likely save money doing that over getting this silly thing that will come at a premium.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

But will it dual screen crysis?

 

[Mariusz]

Hi guys,
it's a poor quality fake photo xD

 

[sudothelinuxwizard]

Seems interesting if they can get it under $599 (to undercut used 3090s significantly)

 

[InVasMani]

But will it dual screen crysis?

Honestly a B580 will do that...do the math

 

[lemonadesoda]

Seems like a gimmick, similar to SLI and crossfire, but

1./ https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000093897/graphics.html#primary-content , and
2./ Deep Link has just been cancelled.

So I don't get it. It would need to be designed very differently in order to benefit from a contiguous 48GB rather than just a mirrored 24GB which performance wise is easily beaten by a higher nV card.

 

[kondamin]

Seems like a gimmick, similar to SLI and crossfire, but

1./ https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000093897/graphics.html#primary-content , and
2./ Deep Link has just been cancelled.

So I don't get it. It would need to be designed very differently in order to benefit from a contiguous 48GB rather than just a mirrored 24GB which performance wise is easily beaten by a higher nV card.

yep it makes no sense at all.
making a very wide card so 48GB of gddr6 could fit would make more sense than this.

 

[AleksandarK]

Hi guys,
it's a poor quality fake photo xD
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I already noted that it is a lazy photoshop. Not a real render.

 

[vantila]

I would buy one for the large vram but unfortunately renderers are not supporting anything other than Nvidia.

 

[Scattergrunt]

Excuse the poor photoshop in the photo. But I imagine this is how the card will look like.

Atleast you tried. Not like I am the fanciest with photoshop either (both of my piccolo profile pictures have been color adjusted and cleaned up fairly well but my first one was particularly rough, thank god for image compression disguising my sloppy photoshop job.)

And its funny too, because I actually consider graphic art a hobby of mine lol.

 

[Daven]

Multiple dual GPU cards from AMD were released before and since the Titan Z so I'm not sure why only the Titan is mentioned as something people miss. Here are the dual AMD cards that came after the Titan Z:

Titan Z 2014
R9 295X2 2014
Radeon Pro Duo (Fuji) 2016
Radeon Pro Duo (Polaris 10) 2017
Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 2019
Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 2021 - most notably as two of these were in the last Intel Mac Pro for four GPUs total