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Two new Battlemage GPUs have been spotted on a shipping manifest, along with early benchmark results that have not yet been confirmed.

Intel launched its first-generation Arc Alchemist GPUs in 2022, and almost 2 years later, its successor Battlemage appeared on a shipping manifest.

Excerpts from the shipping manifest posted on momomo_us's Twitter profile reveal that Intel is working on both the Battlemage G10 and Battlemage G21 discrete GPUs. Intel's current line of graphics processors includes the ACM-G11 (entry-level) and ACM-G10 (midrange in terms of market positioning, higher-end in terms of silicon) graphics processors.

Based on the existing nomenclature of Intel's Arc graphics processors, the Battlemage-G10 will therefore be the largest silicon, while the Battlemage-G21 will be the smallest chip intended for entry-level systems.

As further confirmation, Intel Fellow Tom Petersen confirmed that more than 30% of the Intel GPU team is working on the Battlemage software, while the rest are already committed to the third-generation Xe-HPG series code-named Celestial.

First benchmarks for Intel Battlemage

According to SiSoftware's Sandra page, Intel is working on two Xe2 chips equipped with 20 Xe-Cores (160 EUs) and 24 Xe-Cores (192 EUs), respectively. Both are expected to have 12 GB VRAM capacity.

The details of the technical specifications that emerged from the results are:

  • 20 Xe-Core (160 compute units) / 24 Xe-Core (192 compute units)
  • 1.8 GHz base clock
  • 12 GB VRAM
  • 8 MB L2 cache

These early Battlemage graphics cards appear to be slightly less powerful than Intel's Alchemist GPUs, such as the Arc A750 and A770. For example, the flagship Intel Arc A770 is equipped with 32 Xe-Cores and achieves a higher performance score of 11058 Mpixel/s.

However, it's worth noting that the performance results of the retail versions of Battlemage GPUs will most likely be different from these early samples.

According to a previously leaked roadmap from Intel, the G10 will be a 225W video card, while the G21 will be a 150W video card. Intel is expected to announce significant ray-tracing performance boosts, improved upscaling performance, and improved AI capabilities with Battlemage.

The previous A750 and A770 were 225W GPUs, so it looks like Battlemage will continue to pursue the same efficiency goals. The company has previously stated that it wants to aim for this level of power consumption, which requires only one PCIe power cable.

At the moment, the Intel Battlemage release date would appear to be expected by Q4 2024 or Q1 2025.

  • By Pangoly,