Intel Battlemage (DG3) graphics may be released in mid-2023
Intel Arc is Intel’s new high-performance gaming graphics card brand, the first generation product is the Alchemist graphics card (DG2). It is based on the new Xe Core, manufactured with TSMC’s N6 process, and will support hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling (XeSS), providing full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate. It is said that the first batch of ARC discrete graphics cards will be targeted at mobile platforms and will be launched with the Alder Lake mobile version in the first quarter of 2022, and will only be extended to desktop platforms in the second quarter of 2022.
According to Intel’s announced development plan, Alchemist is followed by Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid, with a total of four generations of products. Different from the previous three generations, the fourth generation of Druid will use the new Xe architecture to replace the original Xe-HPG architecture. If the Xe-HPG architecture adopted by Alchemist graphics cards is regarded as Intel’s RDNA architecture, then the Xe2-HPG architecture adopted by Battlemage is equivalent to the RDNA 2 architecture.
Recently, Moore’s Law is Dead YouTube channel said that he had received news about the Intel Battlemage (DG3) graphics card code-named “Elasti”. It is said that Battlemage graphics cards will target the high-end GPU market, and the release time will probably be in the middle of 2023, competing with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 series based on Ada Lovelace architecture and AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series based on RDNA 3 architecture.
Intel is adopting a modular design on Meteor Lake. This CPU will have at least three different modules, namely the computing module, the SOC-LP module, and the GPU module. These modules can be stacked with modules of different process nodes. There may be the first module manufactured by other fabs (TSMC) in the package and then interconnected using EMIB technology. It is understood that Intel intends to adopt a similar idea on the Battlemage graphics card, and is currently studying a design method called “Tiled-GPU” on the DG3 series.
