PCIe 5.0 x16 is still far from being saturated from even the most powerful GPUs available today, though it’s always a good measure to include the full x16 signaling in cases where motherboards may not necessarily support the latest standard. As Videocardz reports, one unidentified Intel Arc ‘Battlemage’ GPU is spotted with support for PCIe 5.0 x16 signaling, which will be the first among Arc GPUs.
New Intel Battlemage GPU With PCIe 5.0 x16?
Of all the announced cards under Battlemage family so far, no card supports the full PCIe 5.0 x16 signaling – the highest is the PCIe 5.0 x8 found in the recently announced Arc Pro B-series GPUs. That leaves two possibilities, according to the publication, first among them being that this could be the dual-GPU Maxsun Arc Pro B60 Turbo card that will demand a lot of bandwidth. However, this theory doesn’t hold water as the listing would’ve listed as Maxsun instead.
Another possibility would be an entirely new GPU, and there is one such silicon that is widely speculated at this moment: the BMG-G31, better known as the silicon that is expected to power the new Battlemage flagship, the Arc B770. This GPU is reportedly set to launch by the end of this year, despite the project was at one point on the chopping block; if the leaks are pointing to the right numbers, this GPU will pack 60% more cores than the B580, and Intel is giving this card full PCIe capability to make sure bottleneck doesn’t happen here.
Details of the potential B770 GPU is still very scarce at this point in time – aside from some traces found in shipments between Intel’s facilities for the past few months, we still haven’t seen anything (leak or otherwise) from board partners to suggest this card is in late stages of development. There is still several months to go for 2025, so we still have some time to go before any information of this nature may emerge.
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