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Nvidia cover to own the top - of - the - line GPU quad , and the rivalry just has n’t been able-bodied to , well , contend . The annunciation of theimpressive - sounding RTX 40 Super cardscements the lead even further .
As a resultant role , AMD is said to be giving upon the gamy - end graphics card market with its next - gen GPUs . And now , a new rumor tells us that Intel might be doing the same with Arc Battlemage , its anticipated upcoming graphics lineup that are think to establish later this year . While this is bad tidings , it ’s not surprising at all .
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Arc Battlemage leaks
First , get ’s speak about what ’s new . Intel kept quiet about Arc Battlemage duringCES 2024 , but Tom Petersen , Intel fellow , laterrevealed in an interviewthat it ’s alive and well . The card might even be coming out this year , although given Intel ’s caterpillar tread record book for not fit GPU deadlines , 2025 seems like a safer bet . But what kind of carrying out can we expect out of these new nontextual matter cards ? This is where YouTuber RedGamingTech weigh in .
RedGamingTech posted a big update to Intel Arc Battlemage specs in his latestvideo , and it does n’t vocalise in particular near for high - closing gambling partisan . According to the YouTuber , the specifications of the flagship cow dung may be significantly different compared to his old forecasting . What ’s bad , it might never even be released .
Initially , RedGamingTech suggested that the top Battlemage GPU would feature 56 Xe cores and a frequency of up to 3GHz . That ’s still the case , but rumor has it that there ’s been a heavy shiver - up in memory bus and cache configuration . Instead of the 256 - piece autobus and the 116 MiB of L2 cache , the YouTuber now says that we can look a 192 - bit coach , 8 M of L2 hoard , and a whopping 512 MB of Adamantine cache .
Adamantine cache is still passably unidentified to us at this stage , although an Intel letters patent thatPCGamer portion out details ontells us more about it . It ’s essentially Level 4 cache that ’s comparable to AMD ’s Infinity Cache and come along to work in a similar fashion .
That sound passably good , ripe ? With 56 Xe cores , the poster would be a huge rise over the Arc A770 that hail with 32 centre . However , even despite this massive L4 cache , those glasses already hint at a less - than - high - end flagship for Intel . With a 192 - bit bus , Intel would probably stop at around 12 GB of VRAM , unless it ends up feel adventurous like AMD with theRX 7600 XTor Nvidia with theRTX 4060 Ti.(Let ’s hope that it wo n’t . )
no matter of whether this GPU is even substantial , RedGamingTech suspects that Intel may opt not to release it at all due to unsatisfactory profit margins . Instead , Intel might focus on a GPU with 40 Xe cores , a 192 - second memory charabanc , 18 mebibyte of L2 cache , and zero “ Adamantine ” cache .
Is it time for Nvidia to celebrate?
AMD is reportedly defer out of the gamey - end GPU wash in this next generation . Now , Intel is enjoin to be doing the same . Where does that lead Nvidia ? mightily at the very top , with arrant ascendency of the fancier GPU market and nothing to worry about in that regard .
It ’s a dream for Nvidia , but it ’s not so peachy for us , the ending user . give Nvidia the ability to drive up the prices as much as it wish brought us the RTX 40 - series , where the price and the public presentation often just do n’t add up . With zero contender at the high death , theRTX 5090 might turn out to be a terrifying monstrositywith an eye - watering cost ticket . After all , why would n’t it be ? It ’s not like AMD or Intel are doing anything to keep Nvidia from doing otherwise .
On the other deal , even if Intel chooses to focus on the mainstream segment , thing wo n’t change too much . AMD is Nvidia ’s main challenger , and even now , when it has a pair of horse in this raceway , it still ca n’t tally Nvidia ’s flagship RTX 4090 , or even the surprisingly impressivenew RTX 40 Super card . Intel , now one generation behind ( and before long to be two ) , would n’t have been able to beat Nvidia ’s future flagship either .
For the mainstream securities industry , meaning the vast legal age of GPUs that are sold , it ’s in reality estimable if AMD and Intel will be there and give Nvidia some heat . Those prices might terminate up less inflated as a solution . Meanwhile , gamy - remnant play will be pricier than ever , but unfortunately , Intel would n’t have been able to stop Nvidia there anyway , disregardless of the card it might never free .
