Intel Arc B70 Pro and B65 Pro leak reveals ‘Big Battlemage’ workstation GPUs with 32GB ECC GDDR6 ahead of March 25 launch

[Redaktion]

A leak points to Intel launching the Arc B70 Pro and B65 Pro "Big Battlemage" workstation GPUs on March 25, 2025, with press materials outlining creator- and AI-focused specs rather than gaming positioning. Both cards reportedly ship with 32GB ECC GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, with the B70 Pro offering 32 Xe2 cores at 160–290W (about 230W reference) and the B65 Pro using 20 Xe2 cores up to 200W, while pricing and availability remain unconfirmed.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Arc-B70-Pro-and-B65-Pro-leak-reveals-Big-Battlemage-workstation-GPUs-with-32GB-ECC-GDDR6-ahead-of-March-25-launch.1255421.0.html

[nah]

Why not use GDDR7, which offers 3 GB per chip density, then this GPU could have:
256-bit/32-bit per chip = 8 chips, 8 chips * 3 GB per chip = 24 GB VRAM, 24 GB VRAM * 2 (chips on both sides of the PCB) = 48 GB VRAM and the memory bandwidth would also be 30% higher, because it's GDDR7 and not GDDR6.
Alternative calculation: 32 GB VRAM * 1.5 (3 GB per chip, instead of the current 2 GB) = 48 GB VRAM.
Frankly, when it comes to AI/LLMs, I'm not interested in 32 GB VRAM GPUs..and I said this over 1 year ago.
Let's see if NVIDIA gives us consumer 48 GB VRAM GPUs in the RTX 60 series (probably not, but NVIDIA gave us RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU with 96 GB VRAM, which I also didn't expect).