| 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 (...) 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. |
Honestly Intel should stick to sub $250 gpu class. They still have plenty of driver issues and cpu overhead isn't doing them any favors. Being at sub $250 with 12/10GB of vram where neither Nvidia or Radeon will bother trying to compete means they could have the class all to themselves even at a low profit margin. At the very least, they can gain a customer base that Green and Red team no longer cater to.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
