Intel offers up Battlefield 6 bundle with qualifying CPU or GPU purchase — free game promotion ends September 7

Battlefield 6 cover art showing a combat scene

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Intel has joined forces with EA to gather conscripts for its Battlefield 6 bundle. If you want to enlist, your basic training will consist of just one crucial mission: to purchase a qualifying Intel Core or Intel Arc product from one of over 200 system and retail partners around the world. There’s also a deadline to consider. Intel’s BF6 bundle will only be available from August 25 to September 7 this year.

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Battlefield 6 has had more than its fair share of headlines in recent weeks, not all good. However, if you are in the market for a new CPU or GPU from Intel’s stables and are a fan of the Battlefield franchise, this bundle deal might seem rather sweet. Remember, the standard edition of the game is currently selling for $69.99, so getting it effectively free is a worthy lure.

Intel announces Battlefield 6 bundle — (Image credit: Intel, EA)

Intel’s latest bundle announcement is made under the auspices of the Intel Gamer Days 2025 event. The chipmaker says that for two weeks, Gamer Days will “feature new deals, sweepstakes, and Intel-powered experiences for gamers to enjoy.” We can’t be sure precisely what else, beyond this bundle, might be included.

Nosing deeper into the details shared by Intel, we see signs that free software subscriptions for Canvid (3 months), Vegas Pro 365 (1 month), and XSplit Premium Suite (1 month) will be offered. Intel also hints at sweepstakes and giveaways, which could feature new Intel-powered gaming laptops and desktop systems.

Qualifying PCs and components

For qualifying PC processors, we see the T&Cs mention a very large number of CPUs, and they mix parts from 13^th and 14^th gen Core, plus the Core Ultra 100 and 200 series. A number of mobile chips are listed, too.

The qualifying Intel Arc product list is much shorter, naming just the Intel Arc A550M, A580, A730M, A750, A770, A770M, B570, and B580 Graphics.

We are not yet certain of the U.S. retail partners where you will be able to grab qualifying Intel-powered gear and/or components. At the time of writing, some of the promotional page links are spawning Korean pages, for some reason.

Intel gear to keep an eye on for bundle-icious deals

If you want our recommendation for any modern processors from the blue team, we’d direct your attention to what is still generally the fastest Intel gaming CPU we have ever reviewed (2023), the Core i9-14900K, currently $438 on Amazon.com.

For graphics, the Arc B580 isn’t a match made in heaven for the best Intel CPUs, but it can still present a great value proposition for a 12GB VRAM graphics card in 2025. The ASRock Challenger Arc B580 is currently $259 at Newegg. Just make sure your retailer of choice is participating if you want to snag BF6, and wait until August 25 for the promotion to kick off.

Gamers can redeem their bundle master keys at softwareoffer.intel.com between Monday, August 25, and October 31, 2025 (remember the purchase deadline is September 7), with the unlock code for Battlefield 6 becoming available starting on October 3rd ahead of the game’s launch. Remember, the title goes live on Friday, October 10, 2025.

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cyrusfox

Pretty humorous to offer up a game that has many issues with Arc GPU, bold strategy:
battlefield-6-keeps-crashing-on-intel-arc-gpus-here-are-some-workarounds-until-intel-releases-a-fix
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Dustyboy1492

cyrusfox said:
Pretty humorous to offer up a game that has many issues with Arc GPU, bold strategy:
battlefield-6-keeps-crashing-on-intel-arc-gpus-here-are-some-workarounds-until-intel-releases-a-fix
The game was in beta, very common to have minor driver issues before release ffs.
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hotaru251

if your company is in dire straight maybe don't offer bonuses w/ your products as you can't afford it
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dalek1234

It's better to pay for the game and go with AMD.

Even if you don't consider the technical and performance shortcoming of various Intel CPU's, the extra power draw will eventually end up costing (electrical bill) you more than the game is worth.
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bigdragon

The problem with these kind of promotions is what if the buyer doesn't want BF6? I'd rather have a discount or some sort of game store credit. I'd also be very annoyed if EA got some of my money from my purchase of an Intel product.
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TerryLaze

dalek1234 said:
It's better to pay for the game and go with AMD.

Even if you don't consider the technical and performance shortcoming of various Intel CPU's, the extra power draw will eventually end up costing (electrical bill) you more than the game is worth.
If you are somebody that cares about the power bill you won't have an unlocked CPU on an unchecked mobo that just pommels the CPU with voltage and amps.

Other than that sure, if you are into x3d then those CPUs are better for an 5090 which won't burn any power at all.
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Eximo

Interesting, just talked to a co-worker about the beta. He runs an A770 and only had a hard time getting his streaming settings tuned. Game performance was perfectly adequate and no crashing.
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Dustyboy1492

dalek1234 said:
It's better to pay for the game and go with AMD.

Even if you don't consider the technical and performance shortcoming of various Intel CPU's, the extra power draw will eventually end up costing (electrical bill) you more than the game is worth.
When is this outdated narrative going to end? Intel's 15th gen very efficient.
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TerryLaze

Dustyboy1492 said:
When is this outdated narrative going to end? Intel's 15th gen very efficient.
They still saying that intel did anti consumer things after 20 years even after the courts decided that it was not true...so, never.
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Eximo

Dustyboy1492 said:
When is this outdated narrative going to end? Intel's 15th gen very efficient.
One could make the argument that AMD is more efficient for gaming. More FPS per watt regardless of Core Ultra or 14th gen.

Big efficiency difference between Intel and AMD is the AMD I/O chip needing more idle power. When they are both computing they are about even. Both TSMC after all.
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