Yesterday, we reported that Intel might be gearing up to unleash Battlemage early in December - ahead of AMD's RDNA 4 and Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs. Today, a shipping manifest at NBD - highlighted by user josefk972 at X indicates that Team Blue has been dispatching what appears to be GPU boxes for a never-before-seen "BMG B580" card - likely referring to the Arc B580 based on Battlemage.
Per our testing, while a GPU's retail box is probably the least likely thing you'd expect in a pre-launch leak, it does highlight that Intel is hard at work shipping these boxes to OEMs. Battlemage, or Xe2, first debuted with Intel's Lunar Lake chips and stood firm against AMD's Strix Point offerings. The drivers have improved greatly—at least when compared to Alchemist—but a few kinks still need ironing.
