Christmas came early, literally, for some gamers when retailers shipped out Intel’s Arc Battlemage B580 to customers, ahead of the review delivery of the card. How did it happen? Supposedly, they mistook the card as the o previous generation A580.
According to the retailers caught up in the mistake, the cockup occurred because some cards on hand were mislabeled in the system as the A580, and not the B580. Some staff mislabeled the product simply because they did not notice the “B”.
Since everyone is posting pics of their early retail B580 cards, here is mine (arrived Saturday)
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The confusion between the Alchemist and Battlemage GPUs is novel, to say the least. Unlike AMD and NVIDIA, who rename each generation of their respective GPUs entirely. With Intel, the chipmaker is simply replacing the alphabet at the front of its already established models. For context and if it wasn’t already obvious: A is for Alchemist, B for Battlemage, C for Celestial, D for Druid, and so on and so forth. So, the mistake behind the mislabelling is understandable, to a degree.
As lucky as these gamers are to have received their B580 early, it’s not like they can do anything with them until the review embargo lifts – new GPU models fresh out of the oven require the relevant drivers and, again, those don’t get released until D-Day for the card. In other words, they’re just going to have to be patient until said drivers have been released.
(Source: Reddit [1] [2] [3], Videocardz)
