Subj : Intels next-gen Battlemage GPUs are on track, and 3rd-gen Celesti
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Jan 11 2024 10:45:04

Intels next-gen Battlemage GPUs are on track, and 3rd-gen Celestial hardware 
is being worked on  with more good news to follow

Date:
Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:40:13 +0000

Description:
With any luck, well see Battlemage launch at the tail end of this year to 
provide a serious challenge to the GPU duopoly.

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Next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are progressing well and should arrive 
before CES 2025, weve heard from Intel. 

Specifically this came from Tom Petersen, Intel Fellow, who was interviewed 
by PC World at CES 2024 (see the YouTube clip below) as highlighted by PC 
Gamer . 

Petersen said hes excited about Battlemage which has moved onto development 
on the software side in the main  with 30% of Intels engineers working on it, 
were told  and the hardware team has already moved onto Celestial (3rd-gen 
graphics cards). 

Petersen enthused: So, think about it [as Battlemage] already has its first 
silicon in the labs which is very exciting and theres more good news coming 
which I cant talk about right now. We hope we are going to see it before CES 
25. Analysis: Hoping for the best with Battlemage 

The fact that theres more good news coming is intriguing, of course, and it 
seems that Battlemage is on track for its previously rumored launch at some 
point in 2024. We were hoping for maybe a mid-2024 release timeframe , but 
realistically we were thinking that later in the year is probably more likely 
 and Petersons comment here makes it seem like itll be towards the very end 
of 2024. 

Indeed, Petersen is talking in terms of hoping rather than knowing, so we 
could be looking at an early 2025 launch (at CES 2025, perhaps). Although to 
be fair, its standard practice to keep things vague for the timing of any 
future hardware launch, of course. 

Hopefully what we wont see is a repeat of the Arc Alchemist launch which was 
plagued with delays, but given that there was a whole lot more to do to get 
things together for the original GPUs  particularly on the software side with 
drivers  it isnt likely thatll happen again. 

Again, going by past rumors, Battlemage is set to be much like Alchemist in 
that itll top out at the mid-range  or maybe upper-mid-range (enthusiast 
class)  and wont challenge the likes of high-end GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. 
(Although RDNA 4 may give the high-end a swerve , too, based on chatter from 
the grapevine, leaving Team Green with sole dominion in that expensive price 
bracket). 

Were hopeful that with lessons learned from Alchemist, and continual Arc 
driver improvements throughout 2024  as witnessed consistently over the 
course of 2023  Battlemage GPUs will be good candidates to grab spots on our 
roundup of the best graphics cards (and moreover, perhaps, the best cheap 
GPUs ). 

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