RX VEGA AIB Cards Information Needed?

LoadsaMoney · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:22

Devils had a price increase, gone up from £590, to £650, which is the price of all the custom 64s now.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/graphics-cards/amd/radeon-rx-vega-64

murpa · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:30

LoadsaMoney said:
Devils had a price increase, gone up from £590, to £650, which is the price of all the custom 64s now.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/graphics-cards/amd/radeon-rx-vega-64

I suppose when a product is imaginary and doesn't exist you can put whatever imaginary price on it that you want.

The Vega 64 custom cards are starting to turn into Star Citizen.

Steampunk · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:42

I'm really shocked there's no Vega available to buy. How can this happen to AMD? How can they not know the state of play with their AIB partners? And at Christmas of all times of the year? It doesn't matter how great your graphics cards are if there are none out there to buy.

Nvidia must be splitting their sides with laughter that their competition hasn't even turned up to the fight. Get your act together AMD.

Ian Evey · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:46

Amd must be selling shed loads of Vega’s to be priced so high and never any stock

murpa · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:50

Ian Evey said:
Amd must be selling shed loads of Vega’s to be priced so high and never any stock

They must be going for the whole "exclusivity" approach. I wouldn't be surprised if they started selling them with a two digit engraving of the card number on the side. So you know you card is card "#21" or whatever. And a little signature of the factory worker who put it together.

Brazo · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:50

Steampunk said:
I'm really shocked there's no Vega available to buy. How can this happen to AMD? How can they not know the state of play with their AIB partners? And at Christmas of all times of the year? It doesn't matter how great your graphics cards are if there are none out there to buy.

Nvidia must be splitting their sides with laughter that their competition hasn't even turned up to the fight. Get your act together AMD.

Given how well Vegas gone so far are you genuinely surprised!

Satchfanuk · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:14

Sapphire are teasing their Nitro+ Vega 64 :cool:

It has 3 x 8pin power, although only two required for normal usage, with number 3 for extreme overclocking

MadMossy · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:16

I love AMD, had an AMD gpu for well over a decade, but you'd have to be completely mental to pay £650 for an AIB Vega 64. No matter how deep your pockets are.

murpa · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:18

Satchfanuk said:
Sapphire are teasing their Nitro+ Vega 64

It has 3 x 8pin power, although only two required for normal usage, with number 3 for extreme overclocking

Releasing in 2019.

Satchfanuk · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:26

murpa said:
Releasing in 2019.

Cards are out with some tech sites already so I very much doubt 2019...

Going by @SAPPHIRE_Adrian cards are imminent

murpa · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:29

Satchfanuk said:
Cards are out with some tech sites already so I very much doubt 2019...

Going by @SAPPHIRE_Adrian cards are imminent

Read my last few posts and you'll see the pictures I put up of my conversations with customer support of a few different retailers. Vega 64 AIB cards aren't out till at least January now. (They were supposed to be out in September

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henson0115 · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:38

MadMossy said:
I love AMD, had an AMD gpu for well over a decade, but you'd have to be completely mental to pay £650 for an AIB Vega 64. No matter how deep your pockets are.

wouldn't be surprised if there was some retail price increase going off because of availability.

Satchfanuk · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:43

murpa said:
Read my last few posts and you'll see the pictures I put up of my conversations with customer support of a few different retailers. Vega 64 AIB cards aren't out till at least January now. (They were supposed to be out in September )

Last time I checked the calendar, the next January on there is 2018 though. I know there have been numerous delays but I'm pretty sure January 2019 is a seriously pessimistic view

murpa · 12 Dec 2017 at 20:49

Satchfanuk said:
Last time I checked the calendar, the next January on there is 2018 though. I know there have been numerous delays but I'm pretty sure January 2019 is a seriously pessimistic view

Which is why I made a joke about it coming out in 2019

If you watch Gamers Nexus's video on the AIB cards you'll see that ASUS doesn't even have a working BIOS for their card yet. 2019 may be a bit pessimistic but at the rate these cards are developing I'd say even January 2018 is an optimistic timeframe. I wouldn't be surprised if they were released later in Q1 2018

AthlonXP1800 · 12 Dec 2017 at 21:31

MASSIVE LOL at all Vega 56 AIB cards price £548.99-559.99 and all Vega 64 AIB cards price £649.99-659.99. :eek:

Man you can buy brand new GTX 1080 for less than £500 or second hand GTX 1080 for less than £400 or a brand new GTX 1080 Ti for £649.99 or second hand 1080 Ti for £500. The second hand value will drop further when Ampere launch in March 2018.

Ian Evey · 12 Dec 2017 at 21:56

murpa said:
They must be going for the whole "exclusivity" approach. I wouldn't be surprised if they started selling them with a two digit engraving of the card number on the side. So you know you card is card "#21" or whatever. And a little signature of the factory worker who put it together.

I’ll have the one engraved Lisa Su, every little helps

MadMossy · 12 Dec 2017 at 22:32

I know AMD tend to be a bit late to the party sometimes, but to be late and charge a premium for an inferior product. That's just shear stupidity, greed or both.

chaotic_uk · 12 Dec 2017 at 23:42

wow AMD has lost the plot , the vega56 costing more than the gtx1080 I just got instead cause of the high prices

ubersonic · 13 Dec 2017 at 10:21

Lol at the MSI "RADEON RX VEGA 56 AIR BOOST" £560 for a reference card with a cheaper shroud on the heatsink (and possibly no vapour chamber if this mirrors their cheapo Nvidia blowers).

chaotic_uk said:
wow AMD has lost the plot , the vega56 costing more than the gtx1080 I just got instead cause of the high prices

Blame miners not AMD, retailers will charge what they know people will pay.

KillBoY_UK · 13 Dec 2017 at 11:02

ubersonic said:
Lol at the MSI "RADEON RX VEGA 56 AIR BOOST" £560 for a reference card with a cheaper shroud on the heatsink (and possibly no vapour chamber if this mirrors their cheapo Nvidia blowers).

Blame miners not AMD, retailers will charge what they know people will pay.

It never is AMD's fault is it ?