Intel is going to introduce a new generation of gaming video cards before the end of this year, reports the South Korean publication ZDNet Korea, citing its own informed sources. We are talking about a series of graphics accelerators codenamed Battlemage.
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«A representative of a local PC company, who requested anonymity, citing representatives in the supply chain, said that the second generation of Intel Arc graphics, based on the second generation Xe Battlemage graphics architecture, is expected no later than the end of this year,” writes ZDNet Korea.
According to VideoCardz, earlier rumors suggested that Intel planned to release a new generation of discrete graphics cards before the start of the Black Friday shopping season. This year, Black Friday fell on November 29, so Intel can still make it in time. However, there are no signs of the upcoming announcement of a new generation of “blue” video cards, with the exception of a recent leak from the Amazon online trading platform, where the Intel Arc B580 video card unexpectedly “surfaced” in custom versions of Steel Legend and Challenger from ASRock.
The launch of Arc B-series graphics cards may again be limited, as was the case with the first generation of Intel discrete graphics cards. It is assumed that the new Intel cards will be released only by some of the company’s key partners, such as Sparkle, ASRock and Gunnir. However, you shouldn’t expect Intel Battlemage cards from Asus, Gigabyte and MSI. It is very likely that Intel will also release reference models of next-generation video cards. True, they have not yet appeared in the leaks.