Intel Arc: Gaming graphics cards with Xe3 have apparently been cancelled

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Source: Intel

According to a usually well-informed source, Intel has reportedly cancelled its discrete gaming graphics cards based on Xe3 and Xe3P, codenamed "Celestial". New Arc graphics cards are not expected until next year.

As the usually best informed scene insider @jukahn0 has now announced via the short message service X, Intel is said to have deleted its discrete gaming graphics cards based on Xe3 and XE3P alias "Celestial" without replacement. According to this, Arc GPUs in the desktop should only be expected with Xe4 alias "Druid" in the coming year. While gamers would probably be waiting more than two years for new graphics cards from Intel, a new microarchitecture is to follow in 2028 with Xe Next, according to the insider in the following postings.

Intel arc gaming graphics cards with xe3 specs

Accordingly, Xe3 and XE3P, which are used as an integrated graphics processor ("IGP") in the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 ("Panther Lake") and the Core Series 3 ("Wildcat Lake") as well as the Core Ultra Series 4 ("Nova Lake") and are convincing, had already been deleted long before for use on discrete Arc graphics cards. The successor X4 ("Druid") is at least still in the air, it continues.

After the Intel Arc B770 and B750 based on Xe2 ("Battlemage") have not been released, there is a not unfounded question mark behind the discrete gaming graphics cards from Intel. Integrated graphics solutions have priority.

The future of Intel's dedicated graphics cards is still open and somehow the feeling remains that the US company from Santa Clara is always late to compete with Nvidia Geforce and AMD Radeon. According to @jaykihn0, only a data center GPU ("GPGPU") and a workstation graphics card based on the current XE3P architecture are currently being planned.

Source: Intel

Actually, Intel already wanted to appeal to the enthusiast segment with Intel Xe3 ("Celestial") after 2024 and then let Xe4 ("Druid") follow. None of this has arrived so far. It will be exciting to see if Intel strikes back again, or the discrete Arc graphics cards are ramped up.

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