Intel Confirms Battlemage, 2nd Gen Arc Discrete Graphics Cards, To Feature Cool New Technologies & Architectural Fixes, Bulk of Team Working On It

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Intel will be bringing some exciting new features with its 2nd Generation graphics cards based on the Arc Battlemage GPU architecture.

During the latest edition of PCWorld's "The Full Nerd" podcast, Intel Arc's spokesperson, Thomas Petersen, or TAP as the industry likes to call him, mentioned the overall journey of their first gen GPU architecture, codenamed Alchemist and what we can expect in the future. Starting off with Intel's Alchemist or 1st Generation of Arc, TAP states that the sales are where the company had expected and that can get even better given the value proposition that Intel's offering such as a recent price drop on the Arc A750 which brought it down to just $249 US.

Petersen also mentioned the driver progress that the software and dev team has made over the last couple of months. Not only were they able to do an absolutely great job of fixing some of the major API performance issues in DX9 but also delivered on a vast array of day-0 and day-1 driver releases for the latest AAA games. In fact, the number of those releases has now exceeded what AMD offers and is right on par with NVIDIA which is very impressive.

All of this work is definitely going to prove helpful in building the 2nd generation discrete GPU and graphics card lineup known as Arc Battlemage. While Tom can't talk specifics yet, he did state that the bulk of their design team (both architecture and software side) is now working on it and the architecture itself will feature some cool new technologies and most importantly, it will address some of the issues discovered on the architecture-level on Alchemist GPUs. These issues wouldn't have been there if Intel already had a first generation out but now that they do, they can fix those and make