The third generation of Intel gaming graphics cards has been cancelled, the fourth generation is still pending

The disappearance of Ruixuan B770 may be just the beginning! When Intel announced its entry into gaming graphics cards, the entire industry was excited and expected it to become a dynamic catfish. But the reality is cruel, profit margins are too thin, market share cannot increase, and AI has stolen all the attention.

Intel has been busy recently building the Ruixuan Pro B series of professional graphics cards, and the anticipated second-generation high-end gaming card Ruixuan B770 has been shelved.

Intel insiders say that gaming graphics cards have not been completely abandoned, but their priority has been lowered. However, the latest revelations say thatThe Xe3P architecture gaming graphics card has been cancelled, and it was decided a year or two ago that it will only be used in professional cards for workstations and data centers, specifically for AI inference.

This is the Crescent Island that has been officially announced before, and the workstation version Crescent Island Workstation.

Its distinguishing feature is that it is equipped with 160GB LPDDR5X memory, and samples are expected to be sent to customers in the second half of the year.

As for whether the fourth-generation Xe4 architecture will have a game graphics card, it is still up in the air. The AI ​​accelerator card is expected to be Jaguar Shores.

According to Intel's original plan, the four generations of GPU architectures were codenamed Alchemist, Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid, which were expected to correspond to Xe, Xe2, Xe3, and Xe4 respectively.

But the actual evolution is a bit confusing. The new core of the Core Ultra 300 series and the Xe3 of the B300 series are just minor revisions, and the subsequent Xe3P is a truly new architecture.

The latest statement says,Xe4 will also have multiple names, including multi-generation architecture, and it is not certain whether it will be Xe5 in the future.

Perhaps, only when the AI ​​craze really cools down will things return to normal, Intel will reconsider game cards, and memory hard drives will become affordable again.