Intels Next "Battlemage" GPU from Arc Series to Feature Double Xe-Core Count and TSMC 4nm-EUV Node

Hopefully this is true. We really need strong competition in the GPU space. Nvidia is just dominating and it's not good for the consumer.

 

Seems too good to be true.

 

What exacty is too good to be true about it? If Intel can't do this much, they would be better off dropping out of the gaming card market and only make compute accelerators for servers. AMD's current gen does reach the 4080 level, so Intel's next gen definitely must do it. Although this article speaks about the 4070 Ti level.

 

They need to catch up to AMD and Nvidia within three generations, or they might as well pack it in. Sounds like they're on the right track. Nothing too good to be true about it.

 

Even with double the core count what intel can do? Match the 4070 non ti at best.

Dont forget that A770 was supposed to compete with 3070 and fell short those performance targets.

 

Now that Intel doesn't have Raja to slow it down, Intel might be able to make much better GPUs.

 

If it is a 4070 competitor with more memory at less cost then might be on to something.

 

Battlemage is for 2024. And "Ada next" and RDNA4 are for that same year. So, they will probably be late "again".

I do hope for them it is scheduled for early 2024, so they got a couple month before competitors next-gen release.

 

The jump seems to big for me, from one gen to another, but maybe Intel will prove me wrong.


But more important than pure performance is having good drivers.

 

That's assuming the drivers never matured beyond what we initially saw from reviews. Intel has done a lot to improve since then. Their performance-per-watt shows a lot of untapped potential for Alchemist.

Well, the A770 was the biggest Intel had and it wasn't particularly big to begin with. If this were Nvidia or AMD doubling up core count, that would be a shock, but for Intel it'd be a surprise if they didn't.

 

Their RTRT performance is BETTER than AMD RX in some cases, NOW. If double, this could be RTRT for the masses at 1080p.

AMD and Nvidia needs like 2x 4090 RTRT to keep the King of the GPU Crown next year.

I love competition.

 

It's not about performance that much , 4070 is plenty of performance, it's about DRIVERS and $/performance. Right now Intel is not looking great.