Intel's next-gen Arc Battlemage "Xe2-HPG" GPUs for gaming graphics cards have been confirmed within the latest shipment manifesto leaking spree by Momomo_US.
Intel's Next-Gen Battlemage BMG-G10 & BMG-21 "Xe2-HPG" Arc Gaming GPUs Confirmed, Qualification Samples Out Already
The shipping manifestos have leaked not one but two next-gen Intel Battlemage "Xe2-HPG" GPUs which are expected to be introduced later this year with new discrete products such as the gaming graphics cards. The two new chips include the Battlemage-G10 and Battlemage-G21 and why these names might sound familiar to some of you is because they are indeed real SKUs that we've been talking about for several months now.
These SKUs were first leaked by RedGamingTech in an internal roadmap which displayed the BMG-G10, the Enthusiast Grade offering, as a <225W SKU while the BMG-G21 was designed as a mid-tier performance SKU with <150W TDP. This shipping manifesto leak more or less confirms that leak & we have also covered reports of Intel's BMG-G10 Battlemage GPUs already running in the test labs. Furthermore, test tools for these next-gen GPUs have already been available since last year and are slightly larger than the Alchemist tools, possibly hinting at a larger package than the existing lineup.
As for what we know about Battlemage, Intel is going to have the next-gen Xe2 architecture aimed at two segments, the discrete HPG "High-Performance Graphics" and integrated LPG "Low-Power Graphics" designs. The discrete GPUs will make their way to mobility discrete solutions & desktop-ready graphics cards while the LPG variants will see their debut later this year in Lunar Lake CPUs which are already seeing up to 2x the performance gain over Alchemist in early benchmark tests.
Earlier, we have also reported some rumored features for Battlemage "Xe2" gaming GPUs which include:
- Next-Gen Memory Subsystem & Compression
- Improved Ray Tracing
- Micro-Architecture improvements
- Next-Gen ML-based rendering tech
- Latest DeepLink capabilities
- Targeting Performance/Enthusiast Gaming
Another feature we could see debut alongside Battlemage Xe2 gaming GPUs is Intel's very own XeSS Frame Generation which is expected to utilize the Frame Extrapolation technique which is the complete opposite of Frame Interpolation used by NVIDIA's DLSS and AMD's FSR algorithms. Intel's Tom Petersen has already teased cool new technologies and architectural fixes for Battlemage a while back.
As for the SKUs and their performance, Battlemage GPUs are expected to feature up to 64 Xe2 cores with the top variant being positioned against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 while the cut-down BMG-G21 die should go head-on against the RTX 4060 series. Intel's Arc A-Series gaming GPUs currently hold great performance/$ and impressive VRAM for their price under the $300 US segment and Intel should likely retain sub-$500 US pricing for its next-gen gaming family. We recently saw the emergence of two Battlemage Xe2-HPG GPUs with 20 & 24 Xe-cores and up to 12 GB VRAM.
Of course final SKUs and specifications will only be confirmed once Intel makes them official but we are excited to learn Intel's course of action with its next-gen Arc graphics lineup.
Intel ARC Gaming GPU Lineup
| GPU Family | Intel Xe-HPG | Intel Xe-HPG | Intel Xe2-HPG | Intel Xe3-HPG | Intel Xe Next | Intel Xe Next Next |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Products | ARC Alchemist GPUs | ARC Alchemist+ GPUs | ARC Battlemage GPUs | ARC Celestial GPUs | ARC Druid GPUs | ARC E*** GPUs |
| GPU Segment | Mainstream Gaming (Discrete) | Mainstream Gaming (Discrete) | Mainstream / High-End Gaming (Discrete) | Mainstream / High-End Gaming (Discrete) | Mainstream / High-End Gaming (Discrete) | Mainstream / High-End Gaming (Discrete) |
| GPU Gen | Gen 12 | Gen 12 | Gen 13? | Gen 14? | Gen 15? | Gen 16? |
| CPU iGPU | Xe-LPG (Meteor Lake) | Xe-LPG+ (Arrow Lake) | Xe2-LPG (Lunar Lake) | Xe3-LPG (Panther Lake) | TBA | TBA |
| Process Node | TSMC 6nm | TSMC 6nm | TSMC 4nm? | TSMC 3nm? | TBA | TBA |
| Specs / Design | 512 EUs / 1 Tile / 1 GPU | 512 EUs / 1 Tile / 1 GPU | 1024 EUs / 1 Tile / 1 GPU | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Memory Subsystem | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6(X)? | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Launch | 2022 | 2024 | 2024 | 2025? | 2026? | 2026+ |
