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

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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.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage

[wyrd]

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.

[Britoid]

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

[discocat]

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.

[pioto]

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.

[Anux]

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.

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.

[ColdDistance]

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.

[Quackdoc]

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.

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.

[Melcar]

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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