Intel Teases Upcoming Unveiling of "New Arc Pro GPUs" - Insiders Predict "Battlemage" B60 Card

[T0@st]

Earlier in the week, reports indicated the potential introduction of an Intel Xe2 "Battlemage" B770 gaming graphics card at Computex 2025. Last night, a Team Blue tweet confirmed forthcoming product unveilings: "new Intel Arc Pro GPUs are on the way. See you in Taipei!" In the months leading up to this important trade event, industry watchdogs have drummed up speculation about "Battlemage's" future (or fate). Whispers of 24 GB VRAM-equipped variants emerged late last year—around late January, these theories were connected to an official leak: "3 new PCI IDs for BMG."

Unsurprisingly, VideoCardz has weighed in with some new inside track info—they propose that one of Intel's upcoming professional options will be an "Arc Pro B60 24 GB" model, aka "Developer Edition" (an alleged in-house reference). Despite Sparkle HQ downplaying recent "rogue claims," a company rep (in China) alluded to a possible May/June release of their own custom 24 GB "Battlemage" productivity-oriented card. VideoCardz has picked up on rumors, regarding the "Arc Pro B60's" internal setup. They propose Team Blue's selection of the familiar "BMG-G21" GPU; as used by their Arc Xe2 B580 12 GB and B570 10 GB designs. According to an unnamed inside source, this professional/workstation variant will stick with the usual 192-bit memory interface. Intel's Computex 2025 new product teaser provided a big clue about the speculated "B60" model's cooling solution.




Their infographic suggests some type of blower-style fan configuration—likely comparable to the unit present on their first-gen "Alchemist" slimline design: Arc Pro A60. VideoCardz outlined some interesting previous-gen traits; namely the A60's foundation being the "ACM-G12" GPU die—this variant was not the largest available "Alchemist" GPU chip option. Elaborating on this subject, they stated: "instead of the ACM-G10, it used the ACM-G12 GPU, while the A50 and A40 were based on the ACM-G11. The only reason to believe that the B60 is using the BMG-G21, is the fact that Intel has not launched any other Battlemage GPU yet." Moving onto the topic of fresh B770 conjecture—not originating from VideoCardz detective work—they took aim at rival PC hardware news sites: "there is no evidence to support this. The unsubstantiated claim was widely shared by major tech media without a single (bit of) proof."

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[Ruru]

Seeing a modern single slot card these days is like seeing an unicorn.

 

[Klemc]

Yesterday i watched a movie called Death of a Unicorn, it was a horrible story.

 

[bonehead123]

IF, and that's a BIG IF, they can pull this off with decent temps AND price, then maybe there's hope for their GPU division after all

And who knows, maybe they could even extend the line to 32, 48 or 96GB versions shortly thereafter..

 

[Squared]

IF, and that's a BIG IF, they can pull this off with decent temps AND price, then maybe there's hope for their GPU division after all

And who knows, maybe they could even extend the line to 32, 48 or 96GB versions shortly thereafter..

??? Battlemage is almost universally liked. The biggest complaints are availablity (and the B570 has been available almost without interruption) and that Intel only targetted the low end (many wanted a B770).

 

[InVasMani]

Yesterday i watched a movie called Death of a Unicorn, it was a horrible story.

My mind went straight to faction vs faction leprechaun jockey unicorn riding jousting rainbow blood-match over a pot of gold with that unicorn reference. Didn't the never ending story have a unicorn seen where it gets stuck in quicksand and dies. Move horse you'll...no I'll die here I shall not budge a inch.

I don't know how I feel about the single slot blower design, but would depend how loud and/or hot it ends up being.

 

[Vader]

I've always wondered why Intel didn't aim their discrete gpus at the productivity market, given their foothold in the industry with their igpus

 

[vantila]

As is the case for AMD it all comes down to software support. I think we have come to a point where technical hardware metrics like teraflops etc has became to a degree irrelevant.


If the software doesn't support it, how much teraflops it has is irrelevant. Here is a brief list of "productivity" software that doesn't support AMD and only supports Nvidia off top of my head
-Renderman
-Octane
-Vray
-Karma
-Local 3D Mesh Gen AI Models
-Redshift

The Last two on the list technically support AMD but even then Redshift performance on AMD is half of Nvidia and AI models require a lot of hulahoops and doesn't have ROCm support on Windows.

So yeah, at this point I've concluded

A- AMD is big enough as a company to match Nvidia software support if they wanted to but secretly they are a bigger jerk than Nvidia and intentionally provide less software support in order to maximize their margins.
B- Based on price and availability, Hardware specs has became irrelevant. If this 24GB Intel GPU had Nvidia level perfect software support, how far behind it's hardware specs would be irrelevant to what it brings to table.

 

[PLAfiller]

Their first A60 was basically unobtanium for quite a while. Even now you can probably pull one off Ebay easier than other ways. They launched without certification for a lot of stuff, but I think they caught up on that one. I am not sure it will be a single slot card. I got the impression pictures hasn't leaked out yet. I really DO hope they can supply and keep the suggested price. A60 Pro was expected to be a ~$230-300 card...yeah right....

 

[kondamin]

A- AMD is big enough as a company to match Nvidia software support if they wanted to but secretly they are a bigger jerk than Nvidia and intentionally provide less software support in order to maximize their margins.
B- Based on price and availability, Hardware specs has became irrelevant. If this 24GB Intel GPU had Nvidia level perfect software support, how far behind it's hardware specs would be irrelevant to what it brings to table.

It takes many years to build up a large team of competent people,
And it took until zen 3 enforce intel got in real trouble and they started making money to hire more staff

Not that I disagree that amd isn’t a “nice” company
The moment hey have a industry leading product they jack up their prices so much it stifles market adoption.