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These are still BMG-G21 cards, though.

I was hoping we'd be seeing G31 solutions at this point.
Yeah but at expect it late Q3/Q4 but the drivers and stuff are underway they canned it midway and revived it after B580s value proposition
 
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Amazing that Intel themselves couldn't understand the level of improvements they made to Battlemage over Alchemist and probably just hoped it would pay off a bit of their R&D. Instead, it seems like a runaway success in today's bad videocard marketplace and Intel is left fumbling its balls because it didn't bother to anticipate demand.

On a more funny note, I was initially hesitant to get on board the Intel GPU bandwagon but ended up being the owner of 4 A770s and one A750! :D
 

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And now TSMC is near max utilization and ramping it will take time not to mention their supply chain ain't mature enough yet if only they used their brains and ported B580 to Intel 3 they would have been able to supply the demand.
 

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So I read from reddit and I don't know if it's true or not but it seems to make sense at least to me.

He said that B770 was cancelled and restarted which caused 6 month delay. So without it we'd have seen it Q2 as early roadmaps showed. So they keep making decisions that sabotage themselves. And if it's true it shows how chaotic the decision making processes are.
 
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So I read from reddit and I don't know if it's true or not but it seems to make sense at least to me.

He said that B770 was cancelled and restarted which caused 6 month delay. So without it we'd have seen it Q2 as early roadmaps showed. So they keep making decisions that sabotage themselves. And if it's true it shows how chaotic the decision making processes are.
So presuming any of that is true which is the sabotage?
1. The cancelling of it
or
2. The resurrection of it

:)
 

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So presuming any of that is true which is the sabotage?
Not sticking to their decisions.

60% higher perf is 4070 territory. With the rumors that its clocked higher 4070 Ti may have been possible. Q4 is 2 quarters from 9000 and 5000 competition. They would have been able to either price it higher for much better margin or be a perf/$ king like with B580. The difference is the B770 would play recent titles better meaning sales might have been better too. $400 for 4070+ seems pretty good. $450 would have been ok too. Both would be significantly higher margins because only the GPU die is the one that really increases in price. Rest are mostly the same.

Also having different product segments increase exposure and sales for both.

So if they decided to can B770, then stick to the decision too and wait until Celestial.
 

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B770 is slightly smaller than A770 die size it was leaked by someone on Twitter
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30% higher performance would put almost all of the titles in the desired 60 fps territory. That's what 4070 class performance is. Intel missed another opportunity.

Enthusiasts drive sales, not average joes. They are ok with Intel HD Graphics.
 
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They were worried about their graphics driver and things won't sell so they cancelled the stuff but B580 sold like they never thought it would.

And unforunatly it may be the end of the line with Lip Bu Tan running things the way he is. It's a large die sold at entry level prices.
 
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We should thank the bumbling idiot Koduri for creating this mess. Had A770 launch been as successful as B580, Intel would've been working to polish the C770 right now.

It's like Intel fired the wrong Jamaican employee. She turned out to be a witch and put a hex on Intel, "Whatever Intel touches will be marred with delays and disappointments".
 

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We should thank the bumbling idiot Koduri for creating this mess. Had A770 launch been as successful as B580, Intel would've been working to polish the C770 right now.
They are working on C32 rn I don't know about its current or future status

And unforunatly it may be the end of the line with Lip Bu Tan running things the way he is. It's a large die sold at entry level prices.

He said that about future commitments not past or present and we will know with Xe3 aka Panther Lake iGPU.