Intel's new GPU up for a battle
 

Chipzilla might not be heading for the top after all

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn that Intel has very little expectation that its new Battlemage GPU will do much to ruffle the feathers of AMD or Nvidia.

For those who came in late, Intel touted Battlemage as a way it would rival the likes of AMD's RX 7900 series and Nvidia's RTX 4080.

However, according to a YouTube channel called RedGamingTech, Intel may aim for something other than the top spot. Instead, it may focus on the mainstream market, where most gamers buy cards.

Battlemage might sound like a beast – it was rumoured to have 56 Xe cores, a whopping 116MB of L2 cache, and a super-fast 256-bit memory bus. Not to mention a mysterious 512MB of 'Adamantine' cache, a fancy name for a particular layer of memory that boosts performance.

But RedGamingTech now says that those specs are wrong. The real Battlemage would have a smaller 192-bit memory bus, only 8MB of L2 cache, and no Adamantine cache.

To make matters worse, Chipzilla may not even bother releasing this chip because it would cost too much. Instead, it may settle for a cheaper and weaker GPU, with 40 Xe cores and 18MB of L2 cache.

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