While Intel's new Battlemage B580 graphic card isn't setting any records for gaming performance, it does have a few things going for it: namely matrix cores and a healthy chunk of VRAM. Both of these are handy for professional applications and AI stuff, so word that a 24 GB version has been shipped for research purposes could make the B580 a real budget powerhouse.who noticed a shipping document listing two entries for Battlemage G21 cards with an all-important phrase: clamshell.
That has a 128-bit memory bus and normally has four GDDR6 modules, for a total of 8 GB of VRAM. The 16 GB version has eight modules but since there aren't any more memory controllers available, they have been wired in clamshell mode. Intel's desktop GPUs sport a fair number of matrix cores and they're rather handy for doing AI calculations. Along with a small mountain of RAM, you potentially have something that could be scaled up to be a veritable AI budget monster.