If you're wondering where the big "Battlemage" GPUs are, they are reportedly being shipped, but primarily for the professional visualization sector and AI builders. According to a leak from VideoCardz, Intel's upcoming Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs are part of this release, using the long-rumored BMG-G31 GPU die that Intel has prepared for the higher-end GPUs. Starting with the higher-end Arc Pro B70, Intel plans a BMG-G31 configuration with 32 Xe2 cores and 32 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus. 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. For its smaller sibling Arc Pro B65, Intel has cut BMG-G31 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.

Intel will launch both GPUs in the first quarter of this year. With January almost over, a February or March release seems likely. For local AI LLM development and workstations needing more computational power, Intel is gradually entering this market to address the gap left by AMD and NVIDIA, offering high memory capacities and a good price/performance ratio. However, the situation is different for gaming GPUs. According to VideoCardz, Intel's board partners have received the BMG-G31 dies for testing and integration into customized designs, but only for the Pro SKU. No gaming chips have been shipped. Intel is reportedly delaying the larger Arc B770 gaming GPU to focus on the Pro-Viz segment. As a result, no near-term launch is planned for the gaming version, leaving the release of the B770 uncertain.