Microcenter's Trade-In system seems to be lowballing users by offering lower value for their GPUs such as the GeForce RTX 4090 with one of our readers receiving less than half the value of the said graphics card.
29.03.2024 - 01:15 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba
Intel's next-gen Arc Battlemage "Xe2-HPG" GPUs for gaming graphics cards have been confirmed within the latest shipment manifesto leaking spree by Momomo_US.
The shipping manifestos have leaked not one but two next-gen Intel Battlemage "Xe2-HPG" GPUs which are expected to be introduced later this year with new discrete products such as the gaming graphics cards. The two new chips include the Battlemage-G10 and Battlemage-G21 and why these names might sound familiar to some of you is because they are indeed real SKUs that we've been talking about for several months now.
These SKUs were first leaked by RedGamingTech in an internal roadmap which displayed the BMG-G10, the Enthusiast Grade offering, as a <225W SKU while the BMG-G21 was designed as a mid-tier performance SKU with <150W TDP. This shipping manifesto leak more or less confirms that leak & we have also covered reports of Intel's BMG-G10 Battlemage GPUs already running in the test labs. Furthermore, test tools for these next-gen GPUs have already been available since last year and are slightly larger than the Alchemist tools, possibly hinting at a larger package than the existing lineup.
As for what we know about Battlemage, Intel is going to have the next-gen Xe2 architecture aimed at two segments, the discrete HPG "High-Performance Graphics" and integrated LPG "Low-Power Graphics" designs. The discrete GPUs will make their way to mobility discrete solutions & desktop-ready graphics cards while the LPG variants will see their debut later this year in Lunar Lake CPUs which are already seeing up to 2x the performance gain over Alchemist in early benchmark tests.
Earlier, we have also reported some rumored features for Battlemage "Xe2" gaming GPUs which include:
Another feature we could see debut alongside Battlemage Xe2 gaming GPUs is Intel's very own XeSS Frame Generation which is expected to utilize the Frame Extrapolation technique which is the complete opposite of Frame Interpolation used by NVIDIA's DLSS and AMD's FSR algorithms. Intel's Tom Petersen has already teased cool new technologies and architectural fixes for Battlemage a while back.
As for the SKUs and their performance, Battlemage GPUs are expected to feature up to 64 Xe2 cores with the top variant being positioned against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 while
Microcenter's Trade-In system seems to be lowballing users by offering lower value for their GPUs such as the GeForce RTX 4090 with one of our readers receiving less than half the value of the said graphics card.
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