Intel's Powerhouse BMG-G31 GPU For Arc Pro B70 Breaks Cover In Official Document

We've believed with confidence for a while now that Intel was bringing out its BMG-G31 "Big Battlemage" GPU as the Arc Pro B70 first, foremost, and possibly exclusively. Now we have explicit proof straight from Intel, in the form of the patch notes for the company's LLM-Scaler-vLLM, which is a containerized, Intel-optimized distribution of the open-source vLLM inference engine. Check it out yourself:

If you can't read the tiny image, here are the relevant parts: "G31 validation has been added in this release," followed by "performance is measured on a non-golden setup B70 system". This clearly indicates that BMG-G31 and B70 are one and the same. What's interesting is the next line, though: "compare with G21: 1.49x geomean under SLA constraints and 1.13x geomean at fixed batch size."

To break that down, what the Intel engineer who wrote this is saying is that the ...