Intel's next-gen GPUs absolutely need to match up to these rumoured specs to be relevant

pcgamer.com:

A new rumour detailing Intel's next-gen Battlemage GPU has emerged. It's a pretty detailed 'leak' as these things go and would make for a properly quick Intel GPU. More importantly, whether it's entirely made up or based on actual information from inside Intel, it sets a good target for what Intel absolutely must deliver to be relevant when Battlemage arrives next year.

Lest ye have forgotten, Battlemage is Intel's second-gen gaming graphics chip. It's absolutely a real thing appearing on countless official Intel roadmaps and it's due next year. Beyond that, Intel hasn't said much publicly about Battlemage aside from an assertion that its Arc engineers are hard at work on it right now(opens in new tab).

But along comes regular rumour monger RedGamingTech(opens in new tab) to unload an unusually detailed list of specifications and performance metrics. So, let's cut straight to it. 

Battlemage is said to fully double up on the Xe core count of the top Alchemist GPU seen on the Intel Arc A770(opens in new tab) graphics cards. So, that's 64 Xe cores. It retains the same 256-bit memory bus but triples the L2 cache to 48MB. And it will be built on TSMC's 4nm node and capable of 3GHz-plus clockspeeds.

Along with those headline speeds and feeds, it's expected to get improved ray tracing performance along with redesigned Xe cores that can do more work per clock, adding to the GPU's overall performance.

The overall result? Performance at least on par with Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti(opens in new tab) and maybe up with the RTX 4080(opens in new tab). The immediate question is whether any of this is true.

That is impossible to say at this stage. However, what we can say is that the specs are both pretty plausible and also very much what