Intel Arc Battlemage

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We have the first GPU benchmark leak for battlemage. Unfortunately it's not a great GPu benchmark, they used SiSoft Sandra.

Nevertheless in this first benchmark Battlemage scores 80% higher than Alchemist. Both the Alchemist and Battlemage GPU had the same number of cores so it appears the 80% improvement could be related to clockspeed, IPC and architecture improvements

Intel Lunar Lake With Battlemage iGPU Almost 2x Faster Than Arrow Lake With Alchemist+ iGPU In Early Benchmark Leak

Early benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake iGPUs featuring the Alchemist+ "Xe-LPG+" and Battlemage "Xe2" GPUs have leaked.

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If the 80% improvement like for like holds true for high end models then the replacement GPU for the A770 would have the same performance as a RTX3090ti and if the replacement has more cores than the A770 then it could be even faster.


Now while that's great news it may also be disappointing because it looks like Battlemage is going to compete with the 4070ti to 4080 and not necessarily with something like a 5090 or 5080. But might I remind you to look at how cheap Intel GPUs are and I don't think anyone will be unhappy if Intel offers 4070ti/4080 performance for $400

 

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Do we have an eta?

Tom Peterson says they are targeting before the end of the year

 

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50% IPC gain, 100% RT improvement, wider pipelines, more cache, hardware acceleration transistors for unreal engine 5.3+ draw calls and more efficient

Apart from 100% faster RT coming from new RT cores, most of the performance comes from fixing alchemist. Tom Peterson says Alchemist was extremely inefficient and they've tried to fix it for Battlemage

 

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Battlemage needs to be 2X as fast as ARC to compete with the RX 7800 XT at £450, which is already a GPU nearing replacement, its old now...

GPU stuffs hard yo and AMD aren't incompetent.

RT should be good at least, if RT is 2x as Intel says then the replacement for the A770 would have same RT performance as the 7900xtx

 

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I don't know why, but it was this bit that cracked me up....

Intel's Taped & Glued Arc A770 GPU: Tear-Down & Disassembly of Limited Edition Card

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Hand built quality, far better than the machined assembly line cards from the competition