When everything seemed to indicate that Intel was going to focus, like AMD, on meeting the needs of the mid rangeoffering products with a good performance-price ratio, the latest rumor states that the blue team is going all out and intends to launch a graphics card focused on users who need to cover professional needs.
Intel Arc Battlemage with 24 GB VRAM
The latest leak related to the models of graphics cards from Intel with Battlemage architecture that the company plans to launch on the market, indicates that a high-end model, aimed at professionals looking for the best performance in a consumer graphics card, although initially it will not be focused on this but only on the professional market .
Intel Battlemage 24GB VRAM variant in on track in 2025
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We are talking about a graphic that will receive the surname PRO and that will be managed by 24 GB video memory. Intel’s objective with this graph is to cover the needs of educational centers, AI trainingworkstations, scientific research among others.
At the moment it is a rumor, so to speculate, the company could use the same base that the Intel Arc B580 currently has by expanding the video memory, going from the current 12 GB to 24 GB. The new Intel graphics use GDDR6 memory.
If Intel wants to launch a graphics card for the professional market, it should replace the memory used by this generation, GDDR6, with the GDDR7 or, in the worst case, GDDR6X in order to increase performance with greater memory interfacebandwidth and speed, aspects much more important than the GPU itself.
Much of the success or failure of this graph focused on professional environments will be based on the price-performance ratio. If it offers an excellent relationship, it could put NVIDIA in serious trouble with the next generation RTX50 whose official presentation is scheduled for CES 2025.
Success of the second generation of Intel graphics
For a couple of weeks now, the first graphics card of the second generation of Intel graphics cards, Intel Arc B580is now available on the market, a graph that has had a very good reception by offering a performance slightly higher than the RTX 4060 from NVIDIA and which has a price of 320 euros in Spain.
Much of the blame for the good reception that the Battlemage B580 has had is due to the performance-price ratio, where AMD also plans to compete with the new generation RX9000 (skipping the RX 8000 series). In January, Intel plans to launch Intel Arc B570a graphics card with 10 GB of GDDR6 memory and 18 Xe cores compared to the 12 GB of GDDR6 memory and 20 Xe cores of the B580 that will hit the market, for 289 euros (in the absence of official confirmation).
Fortunately, Intel’s graphics division does seem to be doing things right, unlike the engineers in charge of developing the new Arrow Lake S processors, a range of processors that, with the launch of the new microcode patch, not only has not improved its performance, but has caused the opposite effect.
