Vega 64 MSRP increases [updated]

[Giganizer300PRO]

Here's the article: OC3D

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AMD's £449.99 price tag for their RX Vega 64 was "launch only" pricing

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AMD giving gamers a £100 discount as some form of an "early adopter" discount

The Vega 64 launch price is apparently only temporary. The card's MSRP will now be about 20% higher, but will include 2 games.

 

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OC3D was never told that AMD's standalone RX Vega 64 Black (Reference) GPU would only be priced at £449.99 temporarily

It also looks like not all (if any) reviewers were told about this. There hasn't yet been an official response from AMd tho, so things could change.

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We have contacted AMD to ask them whether or not their RX Vega 64 will be available in its "standalone" form in the future, but so far we have gotten no response

 

We knew miners were going to bump prices, but I didn't see this coming. I'll be in the market for a new GPU soon and if Vega 64's MSRP will really be this higher, I probably won't even consider it. I mean this is just the MSRP, the real price will be even higher in my (and many other) country.

[PlayStation 2]

I'd rather wait for an official response, because for all we know it's just retailers hiking prices up.

[Tech_Dreamer]

AMD should keep it's performance in their minds when pricing close to a competition willing to match it,  don't try to bite off more than it can chew .

[samcool55]

Well, that sucks for people that want vega, but if they can sell them for a higher price then good for amd i guess?

[GoldenLag]

Currently one Norwegian retailer has the price of a rx vega 64 set to  4 990 NOK ~wich is roughly 626 USD. 

The same site also puts the price of a gtx 1070 at 4 199 NOK wih is roughly 525 USD. 

just to mention the gtx 1080, it is priced at 5 499 NOK wich is roughly 816 USD.

 

Personally i would take any price a retailer puts out with a grain of salt. seeing how it is subject to change. not to metion the high price level of the Norwegian retail market

 

Source 1: https://www.komplett.no/search?q=rx vega&sort=Price%3AASCENDING

source 2: https://www.komplett.no/search?q=gtx 1070&sort=Price%3AASCENDING&category=10412_Skjermkort&subcategory=10488_PCI Express

Source 3: https://www.komplett.no/search?q=gtx 1080&category=10412_Skjermkort&sort=Price%3AASCENDING&subcategory=10488_PCI Express&hits=48

 

Update: the xfx vega card i used in the price comparison has been removed from the store. the cheapest card has now a price of 5 999 NOK or 754 USD. note that it is now a pack with two games included

[gbergeron]

If VEGA is not better than a 1080, they better price it under a 1080 or it  make absolutely no sense to buy it, and they better price it a good $$$ under, cuz if its close, theres no way im buying vega

[Maxxtraxx]

Reports out of OC UK indicate that Vega prices at launch may have been reduced introductory pricing for the first batch of cards delivered to retailers and we could see the prices jump $100 within as little as a few days.

 

Whether this report has any truth to it remains to be seen but would be incredibly bad marketing by AMD if proven to be true.

 

Link to the article: HERE

[PCGuy_5960]

Who will pay $600 for a card that performs like a 1080 when you can get a 1080 for $500?

[WkdPaul]

@Maxxtraxx threads merged.

[Humbug]

5 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Who will pay $600 for a card that performs like a 1080 when you can get a 1080 for $500?

Maybe AMD cannot manufacture in large quantities... so they know that whatever they have will get sold out.

If I remember the Fury X launch correctly it was totally sold out for a while despite being slower than 980ti.

[Prysin]

3 hours ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

AMD should keep it's performance in their minds when pricing close to a competition willing to match it,  don't try to bite off more than it can chew .

Well, they can just relaunch the 295x2 in 14nm... same perf, tried and tested design, would be lower power consumption ,thus allowing more clock speeds, thus adding retarded amounts of performance (7% OC takes a 295x2 from around 1070 to 1080 levels)

[Brainless906]

WTB text fix for night theme readers

[TheUzu]

Well considering this is the source that said Vega 64 did 70-100MH/s, I'd be very wary for a while.

 

Seeing as it does 30-35MH/s.

 

Vega 64 at £550 is very unappealing you can get decent 1080s for £480.

[Misanthrope]

So the objective here of AMD is to basically finish up an already bad product, making sure is fucking stillborn? Who's the idiot in charge over there?

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Who's the idiot in charge over there?

Don't look at me, man! I had no part in it!

[Doobeedoo]

Price increase would really suck on release due to mining craze and all for new product. 

Would be great having bundle like if you buy Vega along AM4 and Ryzen combo you get discount for that combo. 

I wonder how it will custom cards later on. 

[mynameisjuan]

4 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I'd rather wait for an official response, because for all we know it's just retailers hiking prices up.

Well yeah....thats how it works. Look at MSRP for current cards and what they are actually going for. Supply and demand. If retailers jack it up, it doesnt matter if its official or not.

[System Error Message]

price increase would make AMD not the value choice it has always been. It was already proven to be slower than pascal at mining.

[thexzenon]

Why on earth would anyone pay $100 more for a Vega 64 when the 1080 beats it (albeit not by much) and consumes half the power?

 

Also please fix the quotes for the night theme users.

[System Error Message]

2 minutes ago, crisro996 said:

Why on earth would anyone pay $100 more for a Vega 64 when the 1080 beats it (albeit not by much) and consumes half the power?

 

Also please fix the quotes for the night theme users.

2/3 not half.

[grayperview]

£550 for a reference blower card, no thanks, i wouldn't pay £400 for one of those never mind £550, sorry to say it, but Vega is dead already.

[BachChain]

As long as 56 is unaffected, I don't really care.

[dorin]

HBM 2 is expensive to produce and probably AMD does not want to sell Vega under the production costs, my guess. The bad part is that majority of reviewers have based their conclusions on the initial prices and now the price/performance are somehow wrong.

[RotoCoreOne]

I hope this is just fake news. Wait for Navi indeed...

[samcool55]

5 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I'm starting to feel like VEGA is more of an HBM2 experiment, and AMD just needed funds by selling their experiment.  lol  Still waiting on Volta and Navi.

But people also thought Fury was used as an HBM experiment and for some reason they made HBM2. I don't really understand what advantage AMD sees in it tho.

It's expensive and doesn't seem to help that much with performance O_o It does allow a smaller PCB and whatever but still, don't really understand...

 

Maybe when HBM is whacked in an APU things might get interesting? But then again when is that going to happen...