This is why all the decent consumer GPUs cost like, minimum $400.

NVIDIA no longer needs gamers.

I think my next GPU will be AMD, or Arc, if Intel gets their shit together.

No. Why would I take away someone else’s performance because Intel is being anti-consumer?

I lucked into the i9-12900k bundle from NewEgg and have used Intel for the last 15-ish years but I’m seriously thinking of sending it back and switching to AMD.

Look, I get if the prior architectures are incompatible or, given that APO is specific to certain motherboards, maybe there’s a hardware design issue there that can’t be fixed with a firmware update.

But they didn’t bother to say either of those things. They just said, “We’re not doing it” and provided no details.

Actually absurd and anti-consumer.