Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67167

    Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support

    Phoronix: Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support

    Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today. The embargo lifts today on the new Intel Arc B-Series graphics cards with initial availability next week. Like the prior generation Intel graphics and as discussed already in many Phoronix articles, Battlemage is still treated to fully open-source graphics driver support on Linux.

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  • wyrd
    Junior Member
    • Sep 2024
    • 2

    #2
    Thank you for this article; i am very excited. It will be interesting to see how HDMI 2.1 works on Intel graphics compared to AMD cards that don't support it due to legal issues.

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    • Britoid
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2013
      • 2157

      #3
      I expect these to be the end of Intels consumer line GPUs

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      • discocat
        Junior Member
        • Aug 2024
        • 12

        #4
        Now to see how Intel's linux drivers behave nowadays.

        At launch, it wasn't great, no matter the OS -_-

        The Battlemage benchmarks will be interesting to look at, for sure.

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        • pioto
          Junior Member
          • Nov 2022
          • 20

          #5
          Earlier leaks indicated PCIe 5.0 support (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-comp...mory-interface). It looks like it is again PCIe 4.0.
          What's the purpose of sticking PCIe 5.0 support on the host side (since Alderlake), yet not making a GPU that would use it.

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          • Anux
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2021
            • 1901

            #6
            Originally posted by Britoid View Post
            I expect these to be the end of Intels consumer line GPUs
            Hopefully not, we need a cheap competitor in the low to mid range to get back to payable graphics cards again. If they learned from their last failed launch and start strong this time I'm fairly certain that they can gain some market share. Whenever there were rumors of canceled dGPUs it was always just the high end so I expect the same for Celestial.

            Originally posted by pioto View Post
            What's the purpose of sticking PCIe 5.0 support on the host side (since Alderlake), yet not making a GPU that would use it.
            You can put any PCIe device in those slots, not just Intel dGPUs you know?

            The only reason they would have gone with 5.0 would be to castrate the interface to half it's lanes.
            Last edited by Anux; 03 December 2024, 10:54 AM.

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            • ColdDistance
              Phoronix Member
              • Oct 2017
              • 80

              #7
              I hope to see Intel improving ANV because today is still a toy compared to RADV. I think that Intel should focus more on Linux than on Windows because of Windows users don't want any other GPU brand than NVIDIA. The market in Linux is more because Radeon is better for desktop purposes, but NVIDIA still has the support of the professional GPU-based computing.

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              • Quackdoc
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2020
                • 4997

                #8
                Originally posted by ColdDistance View Post
                I hope to see Intel improving ANV because today is still a toy compared to RADV. I think that Intel should focus more on Linux than on Windows because of Windows users don't want any other GPU brand than NVIDIA. The market in Linux is more because Radeon is better for desktop purposes, but NVIDIA still has the support of the professional GPU-based computing.
                how so? my a380 now performs far better then my rx580 did on most games I play​ and while granted polaris is old now, it's still relatively competitive for the price range. The other intel cards are still looking great as well for performance even on windows. As far as compute is concerned, oneAPI has been doing great as far as I can tell as well.

                Originally posted by Britoid View Post
                I expect these to be the end of Intels consumer line GPUs
                I hope not, with the new management things are for sure spotty though, with how good the DG2 cards have gotten, it would be a real shame to see them step out now.

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                • Melcar
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 1512

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Anux View Post
                  Hopefully not, we need a cheap competitor in the low to mid range to get back to payable graphics cards again...

                  With the way things are going in the gaming space and the proliferation of train wrecks like EU5, I doubt anyone would want a GPU that's less than a "high mid range" (meaning less than $500). Unless you are fine with using upscalers.

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                  • Jumbotron
                    Senior Member
                    • Jul 2015
                    • 1198

                    #10
                    ** <yawn> **

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