Intel confirms subsequent-gen Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPUs will release in 2024, Xe3 Celestial to observe

What simply befell? After more than one delays, Intel in the end launched its Arc Alchemist images cards for desktops and laptops in 2022. The agency has now showed that its next-gen Xe2 Battlemage GPUs may want to launch later this 12 months, observed by way of Xe3 Celestial inside the close to destiny.

The affirmation got here this week in the course of an interview with PCWorld, where Intel's Tom Petersen said that the subsequent-gen Arc GPUs will likely hit the market earlier than CES 2025. While he did no longer provide a more specific time frame, it's far glaring from Petersen's statement that the organisation is aiming for the H2 2024 launch window for the Battlemage lineup.

According to Petersen, the primary set of Battlemage silicon is already being tested inside the labs, with 30 percentage of the Arc GPU group best-tuning the software program to get it equipped for prime time. Meanwhile, most of the hardware engineers on the Arc crew have already moved on to "the subsequent aspect," believed to be the Xe3 Celestial GPUs which might be expected to be successful the Battlemage lineup.

Petersen did not monitor a great deal about the upcoming playing cards however stated that the enterprise will share more info later this yr. Earlier leaks, but, found out some data approximately the Xe2-HPG (Battlemage) structure, with one current report claiming that they may be based totally on TSMC's N4 fabrication node and function as much as 56 Xe-Cores. They are also tipped to come with a next-gen reminiscence subsystem and advanced ray tracing acceleration.

The professional confirmation of the Battlemage release timeframe comes a few weeks after Intel unwittingly discovered its plans for its next-gen GPU lineup. During its Meteor Lake CPU release in Japan ultimate month, the employer confirmed off a presentation slide that featured the picture of a Battlemage photographs chip underneath a section earmarked "upcoming merchandise" for 2024, marking the first time the organisation publicly discovered its Battlemage launch plans.

The Alchemist release in 2022 became a hot mess, plagued by delays and buggy drivers that did no longer play best with DirectX eleven and DirectX nine games. While subsequent updates did enhance overall performance, the harm was executed, and Alchemist didn't compete on even terms in opposition to established offerings from Nvidia and AMD. Intel will be hoping that Battlemage (and Celestial) can have better good fortune in the driving force branch and not have any of the software gremlins that bugged their Alchemist opposite numbers.