Intel ARC Battlemage reportedly uses TSMC 4nm silicon

Intel’s reportedly moving to TSMC 4nm with their Xe2 “Battlemage” discrete GPUs

According to Digitimes, Intel has opted to use TSMC’s 4nm lithography node to power their upcoming Xe2 “Battlemage” discrete GPUs. This is the same lithography node that AMD are using to build their upcoming Ryzen 9000 series GPUs, and a step above the 5nm node that AMD are using to build their current-generation high-end RDNA 3 GPUs.

Thanks to this new lithography node, Intel’s Xe2 “Battlemage” GPUs will benefit from increased transistor densities, higher performance, and boosted power efficiency. Add on the architectural improvements of Intel’s Xe2 graphics architecture, and gamers should expect huge improvements from Intel’s next-generation GPUs.

Intel’s Xe2 graphics architecture will soon be available to customers as part of their Lunar Lake CPU platform. With this platform, Intel have promised a 50% boost in performance over Meteor Lake’s Xe-based iGPU. This sets high expectations for Intel’s Xe2 Battlemage discrete GPUs.

Currently, Intel has not set a firm release date for their ARC Battlemage discrete GPUs. This makes a 2024 launch for Battlemage seem unlikely. With this in mind, we expect Battlemage to launch in early 2025.

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