Intel’s Next-Gen Battlemage “Xe2” & Celestial, “Xe3” dGPUs & Panther Lake. Nova Lake iGPUs Recieve Support In HWiNFO

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Intel's next-gen discrete & integrated GPUs based on the Battlemage & Celestial architecture for products like Panther Lake & Nova Lake have received HWiNFO support.

The upcoming version of HWiNFO has only two highlights and both of them target preliminary support for Intel's next-gen GPU products. It was recently reaffirmed that Intel was bringing its Battlemage GPUs to market in 2024 through a brand new roadmap and now, we have the first support added to HWiNFO for these next-gen chips.

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The support is separated into two parts, first, we have the integrated GPUs for Panther Lake & Nova Lake CPUs. Both CPU families are expected to launch between 2025-2026 and will replace the Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake lineups. Panther Lake looks to be the direct follow-up to Arrow Lake since Lunar Lake is mostly designed for low-power platforms.

While the Xe2-LPG "Battlemage" architecture is expected to be employed by the Intel Lunar Lake-M CPUs, a previous leak pointed out that we should be seeing Xe3-LPG "Celestial" on the Panther Lake lineup. Similarly, we might either get an upgraded version of Celestial for the Nova Lake family, similar to Alchemist+ for Arrow Lake, or Intel may just move ahead and introduce the  Xe4-LPG "Druid" architecture for Panther Lake's successor.

Coming to the discrete GPU side of things, support for both Battlemage "Xe2" and Celestial "Xe3" is mentioned. Battlemage is looking to be a major launch on the discrete graphics front in 2024 while Celestial discrete GPUs should aim at a 2025-2026 timeframe. Recent tests have shown that Intel's Arc iGPU offers very competitive performance against AMD's RDNA 3 iGPUs so the momentum will continue to grow as we see more future launches. Meanwhile, the