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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1

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Seanspeed said:
I still dont buy this whole, "They can charge what they like and people will pay it" idea. I really doubt Titan X at £1000 sold all that much. Or maybe there was such limited stock that didn't matter anyways and it was largely just a brand boosting product more than anything. When I see people talking about what the 'high end' card to buy is, usually the talk is about the GTX1080.

Also, it's still somewhat early in the new node's lifetime. Would probably be too expensive to release binned GP102's at any kind of an acceptable price point.
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They are already doing it with the gp104 1080, it's priced beyond it's true value yet it still sells. No different for those who just buy the titan pascal because it's the fastest card, never the mind it's not a full chip, they don't care ask IT'S A TITAN.
 
What is AMD VEGA CUBE?

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http://videocardz.com/64731/what-is-amd-vega-cube
 
five8five said:
How much better does it need to be before you pull the trigger?

As mentioned earlier if it's better than a 1080, what fills the (massive) gap to the 480?
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Not much to be honest, as i've been holding off buying another 1080 till Vega hits the market as AMD has better future proofing with DX12 etc...
 
Kaapstad said:
The size of NVidia's budget does not matter, it is down to how many cards they expect to sell.

AMD by not going the NVidia route are basically saying they don't expect to sell as many cards as NVidia will.
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Not really, although that is almost certainly the case in the enterprise market where Nvidia bothered doing the 'hard work' of an entirely new memory controller. Potentially the effort needed for AMD to modify their existing HBM controller was actually easier/cheaper than modifying their GDDR5 logic to utilise 5X.

They're limiting their lowest reasonable price per card, but as we're unlikely to see Vega below ~£350 and the difference in BOM cost between GDDR5/X and HBM2 won't be all that much really I doubt it alters their prices, more likely pence/cents than pounds/dollars.

Nvidia are unlikely to drive costs down enough for that to be a problem, they don't need to.

It does however massively change the upfront costs, which is more important for a cash strapped company.

There's also the argument of whether they need it or not, sure Nvidia are fine with their GDDR5X cards but the rumoured 512Gb/s HBM2 Vega with 12.5Tflops Vs the 480Gbps Titan XP with 11 Tflops isn't that dissimilar if you look at a basic Tflop per Gb/s comparison, and AMD cards have almost always had higher bandwidth than their Nvidia counterparts.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Vega is coming soon, also heard tales of Nvidia releasing improved 10XX cards or maybe even 11XX series cards in the coming months.

I always sell early to recoup as much as pos. Only had the card 2/3 months. Tis like brand new still xD
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I usually do this too, but this is too early :)
 
It had a counter on the top right corner which was projected on the centre stage, however they only show us the demo from the screen, with such an angle that we couldn't see the FPS counter.

But said more than 60fps at 4K, which looks good.
 
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