Patches to Intel’s Linux graphics drivers have started to add support for its next-gen Battlemage GPU architecture.
Work continues apace on Intel’s Arc graphics drivers, but things have gotten to a pretty good state already. The heavily AMD-optimized Starfieldnotwithstanding, recent games like Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon and Baldur’s Gate 3 both worked just fine on launch day, and most other applications we have tested on an Arc Alchemist GPU have been both fully functional and pretty performant, too.It would seem work is also progressing on Intel’s next-generation GPUs, as well. We haven’t heard an official peep from Intel about its “Battlemage” GPU yet, but we know the “Xe2” architecture upon which it will be based is also slated to show up in the company’s Lunar Lake processors that are expected to come after Arrow Lake, likely in 2025.
