AMD's response to Vega price hikes

lukart · August 21, 2017

If they did tthis already, I cannot imagine the custom boards price.

I really want to pick up a Red Devil maybe the 56 vega.

EquinStarbeat · August 22, 2017

On 8/18/2017 at 11:49 AM, Misanthrope said:

I agree: AMD wanting to be innovative is one thing, but forcing tech that's just not ready like HBM and HBM2 is just hurting them too much. There's no reason why they should insist on HBM2 for consumer products those RX Vega cards would be just fine with just gddr5x and they can still push HBM2 on the Frontier edition and other non-consumer products.

True, but this is also something that Apple had to push with the IPhone 7. To choose between bluetooth only for audio purposes, or to keep the headphone jack. Honestly, the idea was to set a new bar for phone design as is the same with AMD, but the consumer markets are just not ready for it. Everyone still wants to rely on GDDR5X as they still do with a headphone jack. But there is another parody in the sense that it costs more for the consumer and doesn't really add a whole ton of performance or consumer improvements with it.