https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-trolls-intel-competition-offers-core-i7-8086k-winners-a-threadripper-1950x-instead

Remember Intel’s recent competition giving punters the chance to win one of its Core i7-8086K limited-edition processors celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first 8086 chip? Well, in what could be described as a cheeky move – although Intel might use a stronger term – AMD is offering 40 folks in the US who scoop one of Intel's CPUs the chance to swap it for a Threadripper 1950X.

The Core i7-8086K is a 6-core (12-thread) processor that's capable of boosting to 5GHz out of the box, the latter being the big selling point. However, AMD’s Threadripper 1950X is a 16-core (32-thread) monster which can boost to 4GHz, and retails at around $750 in the US these days (£670 in the UK, which is around AU$1,200), compared to Intel’s chip, which will set you back around $430 (£380 in the UK, around AU$680).