The test tools for Intel's next-generation Battlemage GPUs which will be used in 2024's Arc gaming lineup have been spotted online.

Intel Battlemage GPU Test Tools Reveal A Slightly Larger Package Than Alchemist

The duo of test tools for Battlemage GPUs was listed on the Intel DesigninTools webpage. The two tool sets include the BGA2362-BMG-X2 and the BGA2727-BMG-X3-6CH. Now these are tools which are used for verification and testing purposes but the BGA design might help us get a few hints of the Battlemage GPU design. The X2 tool features a 2362 BGA array and the X3 tool feature a 2727 BGA array. Older reports of Intel's Alchemist suggested that the top ACM-G10 GPU die used on the Arc A770 graphics card, featured a BGA 2660 package. This would mean that the second chip is of a slightly bigger package size than the top Alchemist chip.

This won't mean anything if the chip being tested here isn't a final design but at least we know that a bigger package for Battlemage GPUs is currently in the tests. Battlemage GPUs are expected to be fabricated on a TSMC process node, probably either 5nm or 4nm but that's a different thing since a bigger package size doesn't automatically means that the chip die size is bigger too. The larger GPU package might be to carry additional caps or a larger heat spreader (not necessarily the case with a modern GPU).

Intel's Battlemage GPUs will come in both Xe2 HPG and LPG flavors with the HPG chips targetting the high-end discrete graphics lineup and LPG chips targetting integrated designs on CPUs such as 2025's Lunar Lake chips which are expected to be laptop-only family. We know from recent patches that Lunar Lake will feature 64 Xe Battlemage EUs within 8 Xe-Cores, offering up to 1024 ALUs and offering a huge increase in performance over Meteor Lake & Arrow Lake chips with similar configs thanks to their wider SIMD units.

Intel has also mentioned earlier that Battlemage GPUs will feature cool new technologies and fixes to the architecture and that the entire software/hardware division is now dedicated to the next-gen GPU project. This is definitely exciting stuff and Intel has mentioned its commitmentto future GPUs and the next-gen discrete Arc graphics card lineup on multiple occasions. Intel has spent a lot of effort, fixing its existing Alchemist lineup, and they are only bound to get better by the next launches.

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