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Ugh! Saw that yesterday and it annoyed the hell out of me! He's not wrong, it's just weird seeing all these people from the Vega event making videos...I had no clue who was who!
And I think they're all missing the big thing, AMD isn't answering because AMD doesn't know yet...but two interesting points I realized after some thought because it's just been niggling at my brain ever since. The question that's been bugging me is why.
Why do the big Vega splash presentation if they knew they wouldn't be able to deliver in quantity or at the prices they said? They HAD to have known going in what the situation in a few weeks would be and they're not stupid, so why?
What if it was never about Vega64 or Vega56? What if it's just all about their professional line-up? The vega64/56 are probably based on lesser binned pro chips and the over abundance of memory bandwidth seems to be geared towards the whole ssd/memory cache thingy for the top-end pro cards and probably doesn't 'scale down' so well. (Sorry, I know "scale down" is the wrong term but I can't think of a right one) They just had to throw a bone to gamers to show they're 'trying' to get cards in to gamers hands, thus the Vega pimpfest and bungled bundle.
Also, I think they're going to try and use the Vega Nano as a pacifier by cutting the memory down to 4GB and cutting a few other features so as to make it more attractive to mid-end gamers in price and at least help to keep their market share until they get a card designed for gaming ready. I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't let us too close to it, but mebbe they put it in at last second as an out should it all blow up in their faces and they needed something to save face so they gave themselves an opening.
That's it, that's all I got. My brain hurt thinking about this one and I'm incredibly depressed, but it's my honest take on what I think is going on based on what I know. I don't think AMD knows what to do yet but I think, (and still hate to say it), if they're not going to go to war with the miners then they should just jack the price of the cards through the roof and at least make some money off them since no gamers will be able to get one anyway. If the miners want them, we'll never see them.
I'm real sorry, I thought I'd be arguing and telling you all how wrong you were; but it turns out this story not only has some basis in fact but it's just the tip of a weird and ugly iceberg that I'm not at all gonna enjoy finding out about. I love AMD, but I can't give any company a pass for misleading consumers/reviewers like this.
One final thought. We're where were at now and nothing they can do can change or alter that fact, but they have a hella big decision to make about how they're going to handle this and I think it will say a LOT about how they'll be handling themselves in the future...and i hope they know everyone is watching and will judge them on how they handle it as much or more than the original situation.
Blargh, I don't know if I want to cry or throw up. This is just depressing as hell to me.
