AMD increasing Vega 64 Pricing above official MSRP

[Bananasplit_00]

4 minutes ago, Phate.exe said:

Many of 56 CU R9 Fury's could be unlocked to 64 CU's.

Also that, forgot to mention that. But the Fury is memory bottlenecked mainly, so the cut cores barely mattered anyway 

[Phate.exe]

1 hour ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Also that, forgot to mention that. But the Fury is memory bottlenecked mainly, so the cut cores barely mattered anyway 

It's not as bad of a bottleneck as you'd think.  Yeah, if you just put all the sliders to the right it'll perform like crap, but there's a lot of tuning you can do to keep within the 4 gigs of vram without noticably hurting graphics quality by much.  I'm getting by just fine with mine at 4K.

 

Then again that might just be a relic of me owning midrange hardware all my life.

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Phate.exe said:

It's not as bad of a bottleneck as you'd think.  Yeah, if you just put all the sliders to the right it'll perform like crap, but there's a lot of tuning you can do to keep within the 4 gigs of vram without noticably hurting graphics quality by much.  I'm getting by just fine with mine at 4K.

 

Then again that might just be a relic of me owning midrange hardware all my life.

It's the speed not quantity that's the problem

[Morgan Everett]

11 hours ago, tom_w141 said:

Source: https://videocardz.com/71776/amd-is-trying-to-sell-radeon-rx-vega-64-at-a-higher-price

 

 

 

So it appears AMD is telling retailers to sell Vega above the original MSRP and not just that the standard (black) version is being sold at the same cost as the limited edition. The difference is the limited edition has an aluminium shroud, which admittedly looks better but not $100 worth of better... Kind of a dick move in my opinion when their product isn't even that great to begin with. Matching a 1080 at 499 is borderline acceptable. Matching a 1080 and straying toward 1080Ti prices?! WTF... Your opinions?

If Vega 64 really is going to be sold here for £700, it's dead on arrival. I've also no idea why the Euro price is 599, if true. 

[ravenshrike]

I mean, at this point they may have looked at the mining potential of Vega and how all the resellers were going to severely upmark anyway and decided fuck it they may as well get as much profit as possible off the cards to set themselves up better for Navi.

[AnonymousGuy]

14 hours ago, Taf the Ghost said:

I like the theory that AMD realized they could keep a stash themselves at one of their facilities with low electricity costs and are doing racks of mining themselves.

 

More likely is that preorders have already eaten up most of the pipeline already, so they can charge higher prices to make more money while limiting the sell-through rate. While seemingly annoying for the consumer, it's probably a decent sign that AMD is still expecting this to sell well enough.

Random fun fact, Intel was going to make a dedicated ASIC for BTC mining, but bailed on the idea when they realized Asians could do it at lower operating cost.