Leak: Intel’s Battlemage desktop GPUs are just days away

Under financial pressures, Intel’s desktop gaming graphics business may beryllium connected the chopping block — but it seems that a brace of Battlemages will flight unscathed. Videocardz is reporting that Intel will denote the Arc B580 and B570 graphics cards conscionable days from now connected December 3rd, and motorboat them connected December 12th alongside media reviews.

You shouldn’t expect these paper to compete astatine the high-end. Far from it, based connected leaked specs that propose they person less cores, little memory, and little representation bandwidth than immoderate of their Intel predecessors.

But they could besides beryllium a worth leader. Retailer leaks spotted by Momomo_us propose Intel’s ain “Limited Edition” Arc B580 could costs conscionable $250.

While nary confirmed specs person surfaced conscionable yet, one peculiar GPU leak connected Amazon suggested that the B580 will characteristic 20 Xe2 cores, a 2.8GHz GPU clock, 12GB of GDDR6 graphics representation astatine 19Gbps pinch a 192-bit representation interface, and require arsenic small arsenic 2 axial fans and 1 azygous 8-pin PCIe powerfulness connector (though different version was spotted pinch 3 fans and 2 connectors.) They whitethorn besides link to a motherboard pinch a PCIe 5.0 x8 connector.

If Videocardz is correct, we won’t person to estimate for long: afloat confirmed specifications should get this Tuesday.

It’d beryllium bully to spot the little extremity of the GPU marketplace get shaken up a bit. What pinch the pandemic, the awesome GPU shortage, and its aftermath, it’s been a while since large GPU boosts person felt affordable.