New rumors about future Intel GPUs, which haven’t even debuted on the market, but there is already speculation about the next generation. In just 3 months we will see the new ARC Alchemist, commonly known as DG2, but in 2023 there will be more, as this will be the first year for the DG3 and they put them at the height of NVIDIA and AMD in the high end. the end.
It is more than clear that Intel is lagging behind in the GPU, but it is also true that the same has happened in the CPU and now it is ahead again. What needs to be clear is that the blue giant cannot be underestimated, which plans to press the accelerator against NVIDIA and AMD with their Battlemage GPUs.
Intel ARC Battlemage, one year after Alchemist?
The leaked information is a bit confusing, mainly because it mentions AMD and NVIDIA in less than optimistic terms and would reject any future work. This information is broken down into three parts that we will deal with in the same order as they are presented.
DG3 Battlemage will compete for the best performance
The leak ensures that Intel will be competing for TOP performance with its future Battlemage graphics cards, where oddly enough they will use the DG2 as a necessary maturity in their drivers. It’s a bit strange, since for that they already have the Xe Gen 12 iGPUs and yes, it’s not really the same, but they have a lot in common starting with the architecture.
Drivers are a fundamental part of any GPU, and we know NVIDIA and AMD have hundreds of engineers in game development centers. Intel seems to be lagging behind on this point, so we will have to be vigilant on this point when DG2 is released.
Hopes pinned down in 2023
This point is not only pure speculation, it is a total uncertainty, since one could speak of hopes properly so called. Apparently Intel is extremely confident that 2023 will be the year when ARC really does compete, where it looks like the DG2s that are about to be released won’t measure up and Intel knows that.
There’s not much else to comment on here other than the fact that the more powerful version of the DG2 will rival the new RTX 3070 Ti and the RX 6800, which is definitely an achievement and not a small failure as it seems to be. be implied. .
Mosaic architecture in DG3
This is undoubtedly the most interesting point, because we cite a possible use of Tiled in the purest AMD RDNA 3 style. There is no information on this subject, but given the DG2 architecture the most obvious would be to use Tiled for DG3 if, as they say, rumors want to fight for the top of the range.
In addition, Intel would force AMD to bite the dust with Meteor Lake in the laptop environment. There isn’t too much information on Meteor Lake to think that AMD will succumb to Zen 4 in this industry, mainly because rumors of the latter point to a specific die like iGPU and with RDNA 2, with a higher CPI. in Cores and with a theoretically more advanced knot.
The rest is even more speculative if possible, as Battlemage is claimed to be aiming to beat Ada Love Lace, who would not be one, but two steps ahead of Intel in a single generation and roughly a year apart.
To top it all off, a rather shocking fact is quoted: AMD and its RX 7000s would not be a real competition, surprising thing when precisely AMD will be ahead in the MCM architectures. How much truth is there in this leak? It’s impossible to know, but what we’ve seen only becomes more realistic as the status quo remains in 2022 and 2023 with Intel DG3 despite pressing the accelerator.
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