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WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:

Well, our vacationing pirate has shared some good news when it comes to GPUs. So now, naturally, I have to come up with disappointing ones:

Intel Reportedly Cancels Its High-End Xe2 Arc Battlemage “BMG-G31” GPUs
https://wccftech.com/intel-cancels-its-high-end-xe2-arc-battlemage-bmg-g31-gpus/
Intel has reportedly canceled its high-end Xe2-based Arc Battlemage "BMG-G31" GPUs which were going to be used in gaming graphics cards.

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Based on the latest report by reliable insider and leaker, @Jaykihn0, it looks like the company has significantly altered its discrete GPU plans. It is said that the high-end Battlemage BMG-G31 GPU is more or less dead and that has been the case since Q3 of 2024. We did see some dies ship by the tail end of 2024, but it looks like those may just be for testing or evaluation purposes with plans for a retail launch being scrapped much earlier.

Not very surprising given that the B580 & B570 launched months ago and there hasn't been much talk about the 700 ones, but it's still disappointing as they could have done well against the 60 cards from both AMD and Nvidia.

I keep seeing the B570 at £200-220 and thinking damn for a low end GPU that would be pretty great in a 1080p rig, I do hope the next gen has a card a tier higher to compete with the AMD/Nvidia 60 series especially if the new Intel node we keep hearing about tuns out good.

Yeah, Intel made great progress with Battlemage and the B580 is a great card with the right CPU.

As for Celestial (I think?), I don't know what to say. Not launching the higher-end Xe2 cards is far from a reassuring message when it comes to Intel's future GPUs, and it's not like we had a ton of confidence in them to begin with.

I hope they make and launch them, and I also hope that they can keep improving the architecture like they've done this time and can compete with not only the 60 parts, but also the 70s.