Whatever unfolds on the hardware front, we can likely expect progress on both performance and efficiency fronts – and a weighty enthusiast Battlemage offering – plus work on the software side is likely to be equally important. If Battlemage is indeed arriving in 2023, as Koduri told us, then fitting an Alchemist+ refresh in during this year is going to be very tight, too – so if this is happening, we’ll likely be hearing about it very soon indeed. This is why we need to be particularly cautious around this spillage, but even if the timeframes are out of date, the planned models and power envelopes may still be on the money, and it’s certainly interesting to get a glimpse of what Intel may have up its sleeve. That’s a very different assertion to the 2024 timeframe for Battlemage shown here, but as we’ve already observed, the leaked roadmap is somewhat out of date – so things could have changed since it was made.
More specifically, less than a month ago, Intel’s graphics chief Raja Koduri told us that Battlemage was on track to launch in 2023 (and indeed that the following generation, Celestial, could even pop up in 2024). Naturally, this is just Intel’s thinking at the time, so take it all with a large heap of seasoning, and speaking of timing, the launch schedule doesn’t line up with the latest we’ve heard from the chip giant itself. Fingers crossed, anyway (and this is what Intel has already primed us to expect as a focus for the future, too). While keeping the top-end BMG-G10 to 225W at maximum may seem like it’ll hamper competing with AMD and Nvidia in terms of high-end products, the fact that Intel is pitching it as an enthusiast product shows an intention to make some pretty big leaps in terms of performance-per-watt. The lower Battlemage GPU, BMG-G21, is positioned at the top of the performance bracket on the roadmap, above the fastest Alchemist+ refresh, yet the power usage of the former is planned at less than 150W compared to 175W to 225W for the latter.
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