Intel Arc B770 Spotted in Surface Laptop 7

According to new information from the export manifest, in one of the Microsoft Surface samples Laptop 7 Intel Arc B770 graphics card discovered for R&D purposes, based on the graphic crystal BMG-G31. This could mean a debut. first discrete GPU Battlemage series for mobile platforms, although Intel has not yet officially unveiled this model.

Identifier BMG-G31 has been previously spotted in Compute Runtime drivers and NBD reports, indicating the existence of a GPU. It is expected to be the successor to the Arc A770 and will be called Arc B770According to preliminary data, the chip will include 32 Xe2 cores и 16GB GDDR6 memory с 256-bit bus, which should provide a significant performance boost compared to Arc B580.

Interestingly, the Surface Laptop 7 previously only supplied with energy efficient solutions - Snapdragon X Plus, X Elite и Intel Lunar Lake without discrete GPUIf the information is confirmed, then This will be the first time the Arc B770 will be used in a laptop., and in one where discrete graphics were previously absent. This also makes the configuration potentially experimental: perhaps we are talking only about internal testing, and not about a commercial version.