A Geekbench OpenCL benchmark result for a next-gen Intel Arc Battlemage GPU has appeared online and it raises more questions than it answers.

An Intel graphics card from the upcoming Arc Battlemage series has appeared on Geekbench for the first time. Although its performance score aligns with mid-range GPUs,

A new Intel discrete GPU has surfaced on Geekbench, giving us an early look at the potential specifications. This leaked listing also marks the first Battlemage GPU to surface on a benchmarking platform. First discovered by Benchleaks, the listing details a test system using an Intel Core i5-13600K processor paired to an “Intel Xe Graphics RI” GPU.

The Geekbench result lists an Intel Xe graphics card with 160 compute units and 11.6GB of memory, which indicates it is from the company's upcoming Battlemage family instead of it

A new G21 variant of the upcoming Intel Arc Battlemage GPU range leaks in Geekbench, showing 160 Xe2 compute units and a high clock speed.

Talk might revolve around AMD Strix Point and Intel Lunar Lake chips of late, but there's plenty of hunger for discrete graphics cards, too. In fact, recent shipping data research points towards increasing interest in graphics cards compared to previously.