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Ok so was browsing newegg and was comparing a potential future purchase, and i checked the vega 64 cards and saw the ASUS ROG Radeon RX Vega 64 and ASUS AREZ Radeon RX Vega 64. but what is the difference? i googled and can't seem to find any definitive answers and newegg's compare doesn't help all too much. any one here know what the differences are?
 

links to mentioned cards:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126245
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126232 

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The Arez is from some old branding fiasco, just ignore it. If you can find both, get whichever is cheaper.

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the arez is a whopping $10 cheaper. i was more curious than anything. i do still have the vega 64 my list of a potential card to get since it would allow me to also upgrade my 1300x to a 2600x. (my bios updated for it)

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The arez branding was the result of some anticompetitive behavior nvidia was doing. Nvidia wanted to have their gpus under one gaming brand for each company that couldn't also sell AMD cards. So for ASUS that was ROG so they were strong arming Asus to stop selling AMD cards under the ROG branding. As a result Asus created a new brand called AREZ that would be for gaming oriented AMD gpus. Nvidia later decided to end this practice as people found out and were kinda angry and could have caused legal troubles for them. 

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its just brand names, which is less important when selecting a gpu.

What's important is the chip. Get whatever cheaper.

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I honestly would get the AREZ card just for the little piece of history as there will likely never be more AREZ cards. 

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because Nvidia wants to keep ROG name to their own...

 

2 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I honestly would get the AREZ card just for the little piece of history as there will likely never be more AREZ cards. 

I thought future AMD cards will all be AREZ? They can go back to ROG?

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1 hour ago, Brooksie359 said:

I honestly would get the AREZ card just for the little piece of history as there will likely never be more AREZ cards. 

that does sound like a good idea. and still have the performance to game for like 4 years like my current 390x

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14 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

because Nvidia wants to keep ROG name to their own...

 

I thought future AMD cards will all be AREZ? They can go back to ROG?

Yes they can go back. The GeForce partner program was canceled. 

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