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AMD to cut price of Fury GPU.

me liking/not liking AMD has nothing to do with that god horrible, under performing, overpriced, whiney POS card that AMD spun so many lies about :D

But yeah AMD at the moment are royally not delivering for me personally, mainly driver issues. With each one that comes along to improve a previous known issue, they generate another catastrophe.

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Gregster said:
Good move really and is it a sign of Polaris incoming?
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It could be.

Or a couple of other possibilities.

1, could be a way of trying to appease the expected drop in share prices after releasing their financial data for the quarter.

2, it could be a sign that the we are not a cheap brand has failed, so they are altering prices accordingly.


or it could be just a case of were not selling enough so lets drop the price a bit.
 
Gregster said:
Good move really and is it a sign of Polaris incoming?
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More likely a sign of poor sales. They don't really drop prices before a launch of a new products, they try to control production and release dates so the channels are not over stocked. Excess hardware can then be sold chaper with the arrival of new products, not before.
 
bru said:
It could be.

Or a couple of other possibilities.

1, could be a way of trying to appease the expected drop in share prices after releasing their financial data for the quarter.

2, it could be a sign that the we are not a cheap brand has failed, so they are altering prices accordingly.


or it could be just a case of were not selling enough so lets drop the price a bit.
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Another possibility being that the production rate has increased and they have sufficient supply now. With more supply than demand they are bound to drop prices to shift stock.

Also they might be trying to get rid of inventory before the next cards are launched like they did with the 290 series last year.
 
fs123 said:
Another possibility being that the production rate has increased and they have sufficient supply now. With more supply than demand they are bound to drop prices to shift stock.

Also they might be trying to get rid of inventory before the next cards are launched like they did with the 290 series last year.
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Bit of both but mostly the former I'd say. The likely production problems with Fury aren't the chip or even HBM but packaging them together. Fury is really the first mass produced product using interposers. Sticking together a gpu and memory on an interposer works at a scale a magnitude smaller than normal bumps to substrate so needs to be done with effectively foundry level/accuracy equipment. The biggest limitation to volumes of chips using interposers in the next 2-3 years will be facilities to put them together. On the memory and gpu side they aren't much different, just a different design, but there is now an entirely new step that needs equipment that simply wasn't available in any packaging plant before Fury.

It was a necessary step towards mass production of future interposer products, like anything something has to be first and will be done in a limited production line. The companies who are involved use Fury as a test product and now need to go through a large ramp in capacity but like foundries this takes time.

I said at the time, the tech in Fury and HBM is great and interesting but that an interposer product was available and produced in a commercial quantity was a bigger step for the industry than Fury was for AMD.

As interposer capacity ramps it becomes more feasible and costs reduce. Effectively Fury signified probably a probably 2-5 year shift for probably most gpu, cpu/apu products to having on die memory which will have a dramatic change on cpu architectures and performance.
 
sounds pretty nice, Fury's are good cards and perform as well as a TI on stock (could do with overclocking capability being higher but oh well). As long as they get the price right and it fits the performance then we can't complain really.
 
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