Saturday, August 13th 2022
Intel Asks Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt Winners to Accept a CPU In Lieu of Graphics Card
Remember that Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt that Intel hosted last year? If you somehow missed it, Intel was maybe giving away some Arc graphics cards to 300 lucky winners. There were two different tiers of prizes, grand prize and first prize, which later ended up translating to an Arc A770 and an Arc A750 graphics card respectively. Now news via VideoCardz are suggesting that Intel is trying to get out of giving these 300 people their prize, well, at least the promised graphics card, in exchange for an Alder Lake CPU.
Intel has apparently sent out an email to the winners, asking them to accept an Intel Core i7-12700K if they were a grand prize winner or a Core i5-12600K if they were a first prize winner, instead of the promised graphics card. The winners have until Friday the 19th of August to decide if they want a CPU instead of a GPU, although Intel is apparently still allowing them to wait for a GPU, the company just doesn't say how long the wait will be. As the prize has to have a similar retail price, it's also possible to get a ballpark figure of the MSRP of Intel's supposedly upcoming Arc 700-series graphics cards. The Arc A770 should end up at around the $410 mark and the A750 around the $290 mark, as this is the ballpark MSRP for the CPU's that are being offered. It would be interesting to know how many people would be willing to do the trade, but sadly we're unlikely to ever find out.
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VideoCardz
Intel has apparently sent out an email to the winners, asking them to accept an Intel Core i7-12700K if they were a grand prize winner or a Core i5-12600K if they were a first prize winner, instead of the promised graphics card. The winners have until Friday the 19th of August to decide if they want a CPU instead of a GPU, although Intel is apparently still allowing them to wait for a GPU, the company just doesn't say how long the wait will be. As the prize has to have a similar retail price, it's also possible to get a ballpark figure of the MSRP of Intel's supposedly upcoming Arc 700-series graphics cards. The Arc A770 should end up at around the $410 mark and the A750 around the $290 mark, as this is the ballpark MSRP for the CPU's that are being offered. It would be interesting to know how many people would be willing to do the trade, but sadly we're unlikely to ever find out.
76 Comments on Intel Asks Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt Winners to Accept a CPU In Lieu of Graphics Card
lol, below the letter from VideoCardz, anyone interested can read it and have their own conclusions...
It seems to me that since ARC is delayed, Intel wants to give the option to anyone not wanting to wait for the launch to receive ARC's GPUs, to receive immediately alternative CPU gifts.
lol yeah the next press release will be intel recalling the asian gpu's they sold
Saying, okay time to return those samples we sent you guys and gals :laugh:
Like: Vega will be smashing Nvidia. Later the public realized Vega was not that kind of gamechanger he claimed.
And also it was not because Volta was not that poor, as RTG claimed.
Volta just wasnt the competitor they would face in gaming ... :D but Turing.
Later Mr. Raja said: "Meh, i always knew Navi is what the gamers wait for from the beginning but i was not allowed to talk about it publicly." :toast:
To me he looks like an opportunistic salesman, nothing less or more.
AMD was so broke and it took not that long (7.5 years) to give us RDNA.
GCN1 Tahiti HD7970 Release Dec 22nd, 2011
RDNA1 Navi RX 5700 XT Release Jul 7th, 2019
I dont know how much Mr. Raja has done to give us RDNA. Does anyone know more?
The truth is that they are not trying to weasel out of anything at this moment, they were giving another option to people as a result of an exceptional situation.
An intel gpu (like arc) can work in an intel or amd system. But an intel 12-series cpu cannot work in an amd system and cannot work in an intel 11th gen or earlier system. If intel isn’t also supplying the winners with a lga1700 motherboard, then the cpu is useless. Also, the igpu on the 12700k is far weaker than the arc a770 or a750, so the 12700k is not equivalent.
This whole release is a severe dumpster fire. I can’t believe Intel with all its billions of dollars is so incompetent… it’s so sad to see this. I’ve never seen anything like this from Amd and nvidia or matrox or voodoo or Riva.
They didn't ask anyone to accept anything, they are giving the option to finalize the competition for those tired of waiting. (I myself will wait for the GPU because why not)
As for Raja I've never seen a guy underperform so much and still have a job.
Intel has presented itself as the only relevant chip company and constantly downplayed other tech such as GPUs. It got so bad in years past that technology stagnated even though a multitude of tech companies tried to bring competing products only to be shutdown by Intel’s clout.
It is of paramount importance that tech enthusiasts stop connecting so emotionally to such mediocrity called Intel. We need to light a fire under any company that has the resources to build monumental technology but instead decides to hurt our beloved industry.
Well, the end result is still laughable and I too wonder how Raja is still with them.
While this obviously isn't exactly an indication that everything is smooth in the Arc department, it's not a bad deal at all: those who are really dead set on a gpu for whatever reason can still wait, while others can get a great cpu right now.Right...because it's like impossible to sell it on, just how you would likely do with the gpu in case you already had something similar or better by that point. :rolleyes:
This is coming from someone that isn't biased & could care less about the whole Intel vs. AMD or whoever else.
This is more and more looking like a historical moment in tech: "How not to release a new product segment"
I *REALLY* want Intel Dedicated Graphics to be 'a thing'; but they're tripping over themselves.
I think the question is wether they want to handle this like a regular investment and judge it by those standards or like a "whatever it costs" project to penetrate the graphics market.