Intel XPU Manager 1.3.5 released today as the newest version of this open-source software for monitoring and managing Intel GPU hardware with a focus on their data center products. Notable with this revision is adding BMG-G31 GPU support.

We have been eagerly awaiting BMG-G31 as what's anticipated to be the "big" [1]Battlemage GPU likely marketed in the B7xx class akin to Alchemist's Arc A750/A770 products. Over the past six months we have seen various [2]BMG-G31 enablement mentions from their Linux kernel graphics driver to the OpenCL / Level Zero compute stack and more. The newest mention of BMG-G31 is in the XPU Manager software.

The Intel XPU Manager is focused on monitoring/managing of Intel data center GPUs with the officially supported products being the Arc Pro B50 and Arc Pro B60. With now having BMG-G31 device support lends weight to potentially finding BMG-G31 also in a new Arc Pro graphics card.

Besides adding BMG-G31 device support, Intel XPU Manager 1.3.5 also brings various fixes and other minor enhancements. Downloads for those interested via [3]GitHub .

There is some hope/speculations that the Intel BMG-G31 product(s) could be announced at CES in January, so we'll see if that happens. Whenever it comes, at least the open-source Linux driver support is ready.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Battlemage

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/BMG-G31

[3] https://github.com/intel/xpumanager/releases/tag/V1.3.5