Unofficial concept image of the Arc B580 video card. Source: Video Cards
Intel is preparing to introduce a new line of discrete graphics cards, codenamed Battlemage, and could do so as early as next week.
What is known
As reported by the VideoCardz portal, Intel representatives confirmed in talks with partners that the presentation of the new graphics processors will take place on December 3. According to sources, the first video cards introduced based on the Xe2-HPG architecture will be the Arc B580 and Arc B570.
According to unconfirmed reports, sales of the components will begin on December 12. On the same day, journalists and bloggers will have the opportunity to publish reviews of video cards, and limited editions will be offered to customers.
From the information available on the net, it is known that the Arc B570 is based on the BGM-G21 GPU and will have 18 Xe2 cores and support for the PCI-E 5.0 x8 interface.
As for the Arc B580, according to the leaks, it is based on the BGM-G21, and will contain 20 Xe2 cores, a frequency of 2.8 GHz, GDDR6 memory with a capacity of 12 GB and a speed of 19 GB per second, and a maximum bandwidth of up to 456 GB per second. . The Arc B580 is expected to be priced at $249.
Unofficial table of expected characteristics of video cards. Source: Video Cards
source: VideoCardz
