Does Intel have a maxed out production version of its Arc "Battlemage" discrete GPU? An entry in a changelog of the latest XPU Manager thinks so. The latest XPU Manager 1.3.5 mentions "Support for BMG-G31 device," which could be a larger variant of the "BMG-G21" silicon powering the Arc B580 gaming graphics card. At this point, there's no telling if the BMG-G31 powers a graphics card, it could very well be an AI inference accelerator targeting workstations and PCs, for AI developers.

The BMG-G21 on the B580 comes with 5 Render Slices, or the primary compute subdivision of the GPU, each with 4 Xe Cores. The BMG-G31 could increase this number to at least 6, unless Intel has planned a physically larger chip. There's also the possibility of the chip coming with a 256-bit wide memory interface for memory capacities such as 16 GB, in case of gaming graphics cards, or 32 GB in case this is an inference accelerator.