An unnamed Intel graphics card with a claimed thermal design power (TDP) of 300W has shown up on a shipping manifest, suggesting the company may be working on a new high-end version of its Arc graphics cards. The Alleged B770 design would use over 33% more power than Intel’s current flagship, the B580, putting it in a similar class as the high-end RX 6000 and RTX 4000 GPUs.
Intel’s dedicated graphics cards have been quite disruptive for the industry, offering a uniquely capable, affordable platform with its own driver eccentricities and upscaling technologies. But it hasn’t offered anything super powerful yet. This alleged card could potentially have up to 32 Xe2 cores, a 256-bit memory bus, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory, according to VideoCardz. That would put it in the ballpark performance range of an RTX 4070.
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This lines up with rumors about a BMG-G31 GPU that Intel is alleged to have been working on, which reportedly trades efficiency for more raw power. It’s not quite a direct competitor to newer Nvidia or AMD cards, but if priced well, it could slot into the competitive mid-range, going up against the likes of the 9060 XT or 5060 Ti.
The scene is certainly ripe for an affordable, powerful graphics card that supports the latest features. Although GPU prices have been coming down for the last few months (few of them even reaching MSRP), they’re all set to go up again in the new year as the memory shortage really starts to bite. If Intel can launch a card of this estimated power at around the $300-400 mark, it would be a real winner of a card.
It’s worth noting that the source VideoCardz cited for this story has since been removed. This could mean the post was erroneous, or maybe Intel has chased it down as some sort of unwanted leak. We’ll need to wait for official confirmation to find out if this card is real, but these kinds of shipping leaks have been quite accurate in the past.