Thanks to Vip-cdkdeals for sponsoring this video. 30% off code: GPC20 ▬ Windows 10 pro ($17):www.vip-cdkdeals.com/vck/GPC20w10 ▬ Windows 11 pro($23):www.vip-cdkdeals.com/vck/gpc20w11 ▬ Windows 10 home ($14):www.vip-cdkdeals.com/vck/gpc20wh ▬ Office 2016($28):www.vip-cdkdeals.com/vck/gpc20of16 ▬ Office 2019($47):www.vip-cdkdeals.com/vck/gpc20off19 Get access to the discord and ICC profiles: patreon.com/TheDisplayGuy Arc B980 is Insane - Intel Battlemage GPU Leak Intel is preparing to launch their next generation Battlemage GPUs very soon and the latest leaks suggest they will be very good. Nvidia may want to consider dropping their prices, because if the Intel Arc B970 and B980 leaks turn out to be true they will bring excellent price to performance. Source Intel Battlemage B980 & B970 Leak: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n8t6h8t70Mualnk.html

4080 equivalent for half the price could shift the whole market down ... let's see if they pull it off.

$450 for a 4080 competitor? I'll believe it when I see it. Still remaining hopeful.

I'm glad there's a third option. I hope they keep getting better.

Hell yeah! A flagship GPU in the 400's is a win for all of us! This is possibly a disruptor and I'm here for it.

Holy crap, intel is getting compelling

They better hit their release window, because once the RTX5000 series start rolling out, 5090 at the end of the year, then this and the 4080 are going to be Mid level cards.

I'm an ARC A770 LE owner. It's alright. In the games where it works correctly, it works the 16GB's of VRAM to their fullest, conquering almost all challenges. Almost. Ghost Recon Breakpoint is among a few games that... either run (on minimum settings) in the low 40's, or outright crash depending on the rendering engine (Vulkan or DX12, both have problems) that's being used. However, Elden Ring, Armored Core 6, Halo infinite, GTAV, even non-community-patched New Vegas all run great! Intel truly just needs to work on drivers with specific games. Personally, I have no regrets, I just miss having the keybinds to easily start recording from shadowplay.

Now we are just waiting. Already got my funding secured.

I just really hope you're right. For half price I'm definitely switching! Unfortunately, you're also right that it will largely depend on whether they can finish ironing out the software

ALU count doesn't make sense. According to RedGamingTech, there are 16 ALU's per EU and 8 EU per Xe core, so by dimensional analysis, 16 * 8 = 128 ALU per Xe core. Which is the same as Alchemist, as it's still 16 * 8, just the 8 and the 16 are swapped. Which means 2560 (128*20) ALU's for the 20 Xe core model and 4096 (128*32) for the 32 Xe core model, i.e. no increase in ALU's between Alchemist and Battlemage

Just getting into the world of PC building myself, i'm very happy we'll have another option for GPUs to play around with. I only hope it can provide actual competition to green and red

Other than repeating rumors from other sources, what specific calculations did you perform to verify that the cost is reasonable (as you stated in your video)?

I say wait and see. If they deliver it will be wonderful.

I really hope they pull this off and completely throw the gpu market into chaos. Gpu prices are way too high and need a good competitor to come in and shake it up.

If they could pull this off, it would put a lot of pressure on the RTX 50 series in the mainstream and mid-range. I want the 5070 to offer ~4080 performance at 200 W, but without direct competition it would be expensive.

Them bots goin crazy

The time of the AMD cpu/Intel GPU pc has arrived

Strait to the point you already gave the specs few months ago. A770 was discontinued more than 6 months ago to make room for the Battlemage production. The specs would have been already known that time. The specs are not a movie target after it is locked in place. Every time you make changes you are undoing previous work and putting the product in risk by delaying it. It will also cost a lot to redesign. So no. The original design specs are known to be: B980 Xe 64 / 24gb (16gb) / 256 bus B970 Xe 56 /16gb / 256 bus Mobile Xe 40 /12gb /192 bus

you know, i hope intel is successful in their GPU endeavors. more options in the market is always a good thing.

If Battlemage comes out in late Q2 or in Q3, those products on the 5nm process will have a short-lived glory with NVIDIA and AMD probably releasing their next gen on 3nm in Q4.

I expect it will end up somewhere in the middle much like Alchemist has. Theoretical performance of a 3070 but in reality ended up somewhere bouncing between the 3060 and 3060ti depending on the game. This will probably be theoretically close to a 4080 but in reality bounce around a 4070 to 4070ti from game to game. Still, if they can bring that to market at $450 it will absolutely shake up Nvidia and AMD's profiteering, not to mention Arc drivers just keep getting better. By the time this releases hopefully they'll have gotten through the backlog of old games they've been working on lately and they can get back to focusing on new games again.

Intel needs some exclusive features of their own. Currently Nvidia sports some impressive DLSS and AI features that make their cards attractive. Intel had something great with their hyperencode and hypercompute features though they seem to have fallen by the wayside over the year.

The beginning of the vid looks like you just got up from doing a bump! LMFAO! 🤣

So how would this compare with a dell oem 3080?

What's with the goon bots

Exciting indeed. When the B980 comes below $500, then I am very interested.

AMD better get on the ball here

If it comes out before may, I MAY have a flagship gpu in my first PC

Now they just need to start ramping up the vram.

if its as good as an og 4070ti i'd definitely pick one up. I need a good cheap gpu for a mobile gaming rig. Ive also been wanting to play with an intel gpu to see what all they have going on. I have a 4080 already, so something with also 16gigs of vram with the speed to actually use all of it all is very relevant to me. Also ive been on AMD cpus for a loooooooong time. Gives me an excuse to make a full intel machine. I'd deal with the innate problems with software at those levels of performance. I really like tweaking things anyways. Ive been finding myself playing more with the hardware itself rather than what the hardware is for lol. Also its about time i see what intel cpu's are offering cause the last one i had was a 4-core ddr3 chip. They've gotten new features since then and i'd love to play with and learn how to tune them up. never oc'd, undervolted, or co'd on their chips. Have no idea how well their boost algorithm works, while In contrast i know pretty much all there is to know about ryzen tuning and how to cheese its boosting behavior.

Still failed at basic arithmetics: 32 Xe-Slices*8 EU/Xe-Slice= 256(!) EU. But still 4096 Shading Units for G31 (256 EU*16 Shading_Units/EU) ...

If intel does anything close to this with the suspected pricing, I'm 100% converting over to an all intel build

Don't know about these leaks. They're completely different from the ones we had before. I'm gonna wait for Intel to tell us in person how good the cards are

Very excited to see this intc gpu to come out!

By the time this card come out the 50 cards will be making an appearance

We need more competition in the sub-$300 range.

Based on the results on the last year of the Intel gpu, it’s looking like a value beast of a card. Still, would like to remember everyone to not buy into promises but to by the card for what it is at the moment.

We really do need performing GPU, priced down from the insane levels of Nvidia.

I really hope it will be great, and disrupting the market. but I do have good hopes for it, seen how the A series did, actually had been kind of waiting with upgrading my pc to see what intel would do, as well as for the next gen cpu's which support better AI and such, since honnestly that is a new feature in cpu's and while gpus can also do it well, there will be many use cases where it will matter that the cpu has efficient AI capable units as well. also the outro seems to not really kept up to date with the video content, talking about intel gpu's and then only releasing amd and nvidia gpus when people like the video.

I hope they do it. It would be great for intel to actually cause prices to drop rather than inflatong cpu pricing :p

Remember a770 has 16gb Ram and 256 bit bus. They can pull this off if they try it.

I’m about start my first build and if this leak ends up true I’m def going for the b980 for my first gpu

Intel gpu issues are the drivers which are actually affecting the performance but since the main gpu engineer a ex nvidia one that allowed overclocking of them allot i can see intel being competitive with amd which in fact will drive down the amd prices even more which is a huge W for me

Glad intel hasn't given up, maybe in the near future they will supersede AMD.

I hope these cards meet your expectations, because I would really like to see nVidia humbled.

Clock speeds seem believable, I have my ASRock ARC A380 hitting 2.904Ghz boost (1/2 VRAM speed X 3) using about 18W driving dual 4K monitors.

i wanted to wait for Battlemage to upgrade from my 2080 i got back in 2019, but my 2080 ended up dying of unknown causes. so i picked up an acer phantom gaming A770 16gb for about $280, and all i can say is I wish i had gotten an A770 LE. Excellent card for the price, at least in the games I play and the other softwares I use

i'd really like one of these cards. looking forward to it.

i really hope this releases, it will be a game changer

Building a pc right now, hard stuck on if i want to give the a770 a chance, the price tag is very compelling lol

really exciting intel might be starting to match performance with amd and nvidia now and at a lower cost

Uhh the B970, other then ALU and boost clock increases, everything else is reduced. That leads me to seeing it as an underperforming card, new software is more demanding on vram. But the B980 is doubled on everything.

I don’t want to blame Intel because it does not support basically DX9, this is more an issue of the keep alive games to remastering old and fabulous games from the past to Vulkan and / or DX12 Ultimate. If this games were remastered Intel would not struggle with drivers to support old DX games. In the bottom line thumbs up to Intel 👍! Thanks for your effort and information you did on this video! Keep on it! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

All Intel gaming systems in the near future! I started gaming on an Intel 8086.

The original leak suggested a 3080ti at 350$ so this Is really good news imo

I'm rooting for you intel!

Hmm... one of my PCs: Asrock PG Arc A770 16GB (PCIe 4) Asrock PG 4 z690 (PCIe 4) 32 GB DDR 4 I5-13400 I do not bench or test but I think it runs very good. Of course you can not compare it with rtx 4090 but it runs all I want smothly and without issues. Driver works good. So Im looking forward to the battlemage. But as you can see, Im limited to PCIe4 and I guess the next GPUs will all use PCIe5. Hmmm.......🤔

At least I hope so!!!!

I love my 6800xt. Looking forward to loving this one too. 😏

why they didnt put RTX 4070 -- 200W and better performance?

If those prices are Legit Nvidia and AMD is going to have some problems... ;o

Waiting for arc b950. It's been A WHILE since anyone released a cheap gaming gpu.

Yeah, but I thought Intel said they would not be making their own flagship GPU's anymore. So now we will have ugly bulky ones instead of a sleek looking one like before.

I hope this ends up being real. Tired of nvidia price gouging us all

Sounds good.

Boost clocks are good 👍

Battlemage will not be what people are expecting. Intel needs more time for their drivers to mature. We're most likely stuck with nvidia and amd for another few years

if intel actually releases a full lineup with inventory on desktop, ill lose a lot of trust in MLID.

I really, REALLY hope that Intel will come up with some high end GPUs with lower prices. So nvidia and amd finally drop down their stupidly expenaive GPUs in price. Will Intel be our savior ? Only time will tell.

Double the ALUs per EU, but half the EUs per Xe core. 8*16*32=16*8*32. If you double something, then half it, you're where you started. Is that bit at 1:40 just wrong? E: NO WAI will the 980 be $450 for those kinds of numbers. That's completely wild. 7600XT price, VERY NEARLY 4080 performance?! E2: Ah, there's the catch. Even approximately a 4070 Ti for $450 is delicious.

im so glad intel is making gpus

Bots, more like butts.

Whatever the pricing I am purchsing x2 of the B980. Come on release date.

to put this into perspective this gpu with be better than an 3090 raw performance wise with higher specs for only 450$ maybe even less if intel has decides to lower msrp again

Lol that thumbnail is insane hahahahaha

If this happens and Nvidia/AMD dont have any competitive product, the gaming community would have the best gift in a decade.

ON PAPER

THe moustache is a bad idea.

I cringe every time I see a KZfaqr shill for software keys. Because they're all ripping off their fans. So people, check the net, and you may find the place I'm thinking of. Can't tell you outright because I’m already stepping on this guy's toes.

One word: drivers

i have doubts b980 battle against 4080... they need to optimize driver's first

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is….

If its ray tracing performance is good enough I can see this rug pull Nvidia pretty hard.

It doesn't need to be $450. That would be fantastic but $599 would be acceptable, to me at least. If I can get $800 4070 ti super performance for $600 that is a win. Hell coming withing 10-15% of a $1000 4080 super for $650+ is a deal I would take.

I used to hate Intel down my spine.. but now... GO INTEL!! YOU CAN DO IT!!

So much hype... I would love to believe this could be true. If Intel does come out with something that can compete with a 4070 at 1/2 to 2/3 of the price it will be THE CARD of this generation and the most disruptive GPU ever released. Intel will DESTROY both AMD/Nvidia in terms of value and that is exactly what MANY people have been waiting for. If Intel can pull this off it will be a HUGE COUP in the GPU market, and they could go to 50% market share overnight. (or at least in 1 GPU generation) of course this pre-assumes: 1: they can actually compete with the 4070 in terms of performance 2: that they are willing to release that card at 50%-66% of the 4070 price... 3: that they produce enough of the cards that shortages don't end up driving up the price because no one has enough of the cards to satisfy demand... Those are all BIG FUCKING IF'S and I'll believe it when I see it... A lot of people are REALLY FUCKING SICK of Nvidia/AMD price gouging/price collusion and would gladly switch to Team Blue if Intel could deliver on something like this, but so far they haven't... the 770 is 6600 levels of performance with a bigger memory buffer and a wider system bus and while the memory is great it doesn't really matter on a card with 6600 levels of performance... If the 970 comes in with the performance of 4070... at 90% of the price... that isn't going to change anything either... for this actually be what we're hoping for Intel has to: 1. Bring out the 970 with performance to match the 4070 2. Offer a minimum of 12GB Vram on the card and not on cut down system bus. (16GB on a 256-bit bus would be better) 3. Do this at at least a 30% discount over the 4070 (50% would be better) If they can do it, they will have THE CARD EVERYONE WANTS TO BUY and they will destroy Nvidia/AMD in terms of value, it will be the most disruptive GPU ever released and a market coup the likes of which has never been seen, and they will sell as many as they can produce making major inroads into Nvidia/AMD market share... I would like to believe that this is really possible, but I'll actually believe it when it happens, until then this is a pipe dream...

Remember, everyone: ALUs do not scale linearly, as GC would have you believe. It is very likely that the ARC B980 will be somewhere between 85-110% faster than the ARC A770. It will almost certianly be on par with the RTX 4070 Super, not the 4070 Ti Super or 4080. Granted, it will still be worth it at $450, and I would recommend it to everyone at that price, but let's be realistic.

I'd watch the slanging of the Windows keys. YT tried to ban one channel with 500k subs over it, but they rescinded. I'm not anti cheap keys and I use them, but channels need to be careful. There are too many Karens out there that will tell on you.

Wrong CPU hinders the performance fair bit. INTEL is all about pairing to the CPU. FPS numbers for the A770 at 4k is not that far off from 1440p we haveseen when with mid and high settings even RT on. Another point is you can't compare INTEL FPS to FPS. For example 4070ti gives a great result on 1440p but 192 bus from the 4070ti can't do 4k nor can 128 bus from the RX 7600XT 16GB often compared to . Yes on paper 4070ti can do twice the FPS compared to A770 but it is a stuttery mess and won't give a good experience. A770 most is playable and with RT. I'm just pointing to a card 4070ti that is leaps over the RX 7600XT 16GB to get some perspective. XeSS XMX that is for INTEL cards and XeSS DP4A for customer open source cards. The programs are not the same. Two different programs and I have no idea why would they name them so similar and confusing. But XeSS XMX is as good as DLSS but XeSS DP4A is not. But when tested with AMD CPU it will not work optimum. Often missed and wrong information given To understand the architectures of INTEL vs AMD/Nvidia is vital when comparing. INTEL pairs with the CPU splitting the tasks between GPU/CPU and then bringing it together to make a frame with lot less queuing that results to very small frame time. AMD/Nvidia do most of the executions in the GPU and this results queuing and inconsistency, longer frame time and broken frames. Result is that you need twice as much FPS and even then it will stutter from bad frame time. People and reviewers haven't caught up to this yet because there has always been just two with very similar architectures. Hence INTEL PresentMon tool to tune and spot bottlenecks and to find the best pairing. The point made is that if ARC is level in comparison in reality it is hitting lot higher. You can see it well if you compare the 1080p/1440p/4k. More you demand less the drop compared to the competition. You can think this as follows. 1080p you get 100FPS but when you double that you get 200FPS that might be the limit for the game. So you are getting the max offered from the game. 1440p you might get 80FPS but when you double it you get 160FPS. And as follows for 4k similar number would be 70FPS that doubles to 140FPS. This is the weird observation that everyone can make that when the load gets bigger and more is demanded less the FPS drops compared. Reason why I'm talking "doubling" is because you also h ave two elements CPU and GPU both working hard because of the different architecture. You get 1 Frame but in reality if compared you can count that as double as 2. So if the frame limit of the game is 200FPS we only see 100FPS from INTEL that is still matching the performance of 200FPS from other cards. The proof also lies on the RT. As you know RT drops the FPS lot less on INTEL. That number also should be doubled and suddenly it is matching the competition with the extra workload. Pretty hard to explain to be honest but when you figure it you also see where the ARC is actually hitting. It might not be actually double but it wouldn't be far from it. Other proof is the encoding and time it takes. Again the tasks are split and the ARC gets close to the $1000 cards that are suppose to be twice as fast but in reality not that far ahead. As a summery it all depends how you review. And if you review two different architectures the same way you get false results that give you the wrong picture. Maybe this was necessary to sell as there are two CPU manufacturers to make it look like it performs the same. But now we know better. There is lot more to it than these channels let out. Battlemage is based on Alchemist and very similar for the drivers. So I think drivers are going to start from Alchemist level. Then there is APO that seems to promise 10-50% gain. Lets see what that's about.

Wait so A for Arc, B for Battlemage... C for Cleric? Bring those codenames

Really no point in speculating. Just wait.

Q3 this year??? My son wants a ps5 but seems like he will get this card then instead

the day the B980 releases i will be purchasing it lol no quiestion

No way its gonna run 24gpbs. 100% its gonna run 20gbps as intel and amd are stocking up on 20gbps gddr6 and nvidia on gddr7

A770 isnt smooth at all from what ive seen it sucks im sooo excited for battle mage i really want to see intel succeed!

we don t need the b980 and 970 to be that good we need it just to be better than the other 500ish gpu's in the market

Maybe i should just watch red gaming tech from now on😎

I’d buy that for a dollar.

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