The Intel Arc Battlemage Xe2 BMG-10 and BMG-21 GPUs have reportedly been confirmed via leaked shipping manifestos. The two GPUs represent what is believed to be the follow-up in Intel’s ARC discreet graphics card lineup. Rumors are already spreading that they could launch by the end of the year or possibly early 2025. This could be interesting since there are similar launch rumors for NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series GPUs.The leaked shipping manifestos come via @momomo_us on X (formerly Twitter) who has a solid reputation for inside information and who has also included what appears to be two Lunar Lake CPUs as well.
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Ongoing speculation:
According to RedGamingTech (via WccfTech), who leaked several Battlemage tidbits last year. The BMG-10 GPU is rumored to be Intel’s enthusiast-tier offering which could have a TDP of 225 Watts that would eye the NVIDIA RTX 4070 and AMD RX 7900 graphics card space. The BMG-21 is said to be more of a mid-level GPU and could have a TDP of around 150 Watts, perhaps targeting the AMD RX 6700 XT/RX 7600 and NVIDIA RTX 4060 market segment. Pricing and performance will be key if Intel hopes to gain ground in these segments. Testing tools for the new GPUs have been said to have been released in the last twelve months and the BMG-10 is reported to be in test labs already.
It is not known when Intel Arc Battlemage will officially launch but other speculation includes the possibility of Intel debuting its XeSS Frame Gen technology with it to help show off the performance capabilities of its Xe2 GPUs and further compete with NVIDIA and AMD. Other more obvious expected upgrades from the Alchemist lineup are improved ray tracing, next-gen ML rendering technology, upgraded DeepLink support, faster VRAM, and potentially higher memory capacities. Battlemage GPUs could feature up to 64 Xe2 cores. Given Intel’s push, and the PC industry as a whole, with AI it also wouldn’t be a huge surprise to see some kind of AI feature support.