Intel Roadmap Points Reaffirms Next-Gen Arc Xe2 “Battlemage” Discrete GPU Launch In 2024

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Intel has reaffirmed that its next-gen Arc Xe2 "Battlemage" discrete GPUs are heading for launch in the coming year.

It's been over a year since Intel launched its first Arc discrete GPUs based on the Xe "Alchemist" core architecture. The discrete GPUs first made their debut with the Arc A380 and gradually saw the release of higher-tier products such as the A770, A750, and the most recent A750. The GPU architecture was also adopted by several mobility chips and since its launch, Intel has fine-tuned and fixed a lot of the performance issues and bugs associated with the architecture, drivers, and software ecosystem.

Now, Intel has introduced the same Arc Xe "Alchemist" architecture on its Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs as an iGPU. This solution offers very competitive performance against AMD's RDNA 3 iGPUs & we can expect further improvements as the driver improves down the line. But in 2024, Intel aims to release a brand new GPU architecture known as Xe2 "Battlemage" This new architecture will be used by the next iteration of Intel's Arc Gaming & Pro discrete GPUs for desktop and mobility PCs.

During a Client PC roadmap showcased at the Japanese launch event of the Core Ultra CPUs, Intel released a new roadmap that showcases its discrete GPU lineup throughout 2023 then moves on to 2024 pointing out the release of Xe2 "Battlemage" discrete GPUs. Note that the GPU portion of the roadmap only lists Arc discrete products such as the Pro A60, A60M, and the A580, all 3 of which were introduced this year. The Alchemist Arc iGPU for Core Ultra GPUs isn't mentioned since it doesn't fall in the category of a discrete graphics chip.

Intel uses a different terminology for its iGPUs which was first mentioned by Raja Koduri. The GPU tile