Intel’s long anticipated battlemage graphics hardware is beginning to surface, but the initial focus is firmly on professional visualization and Artificial Intelligence builders rather than gaming. According to a leak from VideoCardz, the company is readying Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 desktop gpus based on the BMG-G31 die, which has been rumored as the foundation for Intel’s higher end battlemage lineup. These parts are described as being shipped primarily into the pro visualization and workstation ecosystem instead of consumer gaming channels, signaling where Intel sees the most immediate demand.
The flagship Arc Pro B70 is built around a BMG-G31 configuration with 32 Xe2 cores and 32 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus. The article notes that this will equal to about 4,096 FP32 cores in its full configuration, which is exactly twice the core count of the Arc Pro B60, and twice its memory capacity on a single-GPU version. The smaller Arc Pro B65 trims that same die to support 2,560 FP32 cores, with 20 Xe2 cores in total. This is the same core configuration as the Arc Pro B60, but this card comes with 32 GB of GDDR6 memory out of the box, 8 GB higher than the Arc Pro B60, giving the midtier model a sizable memory advantage for data heavy professional workloads.
Intel will launch both GPUs in the first quarter of this year, and with January almost over, a February or March release seems likely. The article positions these boards as appealing options for local Artificial Intelligence LLM development and workstations needing more computational power, where Intel is attempting to address gaps left by AMD and NVIDIA by pairing high memory capacities with a strong price and performance balance. In contrast, the gaming side of battlemage appears stalled. VideoCardz reports that Intel’s board partners have received BMG-G31 dies for testing and integration into customized designs, but only for the Pro SKU, and no gaming chips have been shipped. Intel is reportedly delaying the larger Arc B770 gaming GPU to concentrate on the Pro-Viz segment, leaving no near-term launch planned for the gaming variant and the release timing of the B770 uncertain.
