A couple of weeks ago, a mooted high-end variant of Intel's Battlemage gaming graphics architecture was spotted in a shipping manifest. That was labelled for "R&D" purposes, but still had me hoping Intel was cooking something up that might compete with Nvidia's RTX 5070 on performance but radically undercut it on price. This latest spot of the increasingly hallowed Intel G31 GPU is a fraction more straight up, in some regards at least, and so even more tantalising.
Once again, it's X user Haze2K1 and the shipping data website NBD that's furnishing us with an insight into Intel's graphics machinations. But this time, instead of the G31 GPU itself popping up in the data, it's supporting components for the chip, including socket stiffeners (ooo, er!) and cylindrical multicontact connectors, whatever they are.
