Wind your neck in, for anyone wanting a new gpu its the equivalent of being bent over a barrel. Always some convergence of reasons that conveniently happen in time for retailers to up the price.
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Radeon VII
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Wind your neck in, for anyone wanting a new gpu its the equivalent of being bent over a barrel. Always some convergence of reasons that conveniently happen in time for retailers to up the price.
Soldato
I find that hard to believe. I use PayPal all the time when buying from OcUK and the moment the OcUK cart accepts payment I receive an order confirmation from them. If it turns out behind the scenes that OcUK don't actually allocate stock based on successful online transactions and only pick your order once payment is received then I'm sure there would be cause for serious complaint. Sounds like Gibbo is spinning a yarn so he doesn't have to shell out for PayPal's fees in the wake of Radeon 7 buying frenzy.
I didn’t mean it to come across quite so abruptly. It’s just that the situation is nothing new and Gibbo is quite open that the price goes up because of early demand and there will always be someone willing to cough up another fifty quid for a day one product. Rich companies become richer because people can’t resist.
The point remains that the only problem is the frustration of having to wait for the price to fall or simply picking up a 2080 for £650.
Man of Honour
I really do hope that the Radeon VII sells in large numbers as it will give NVidia some serious competition in an area where they are weak unless they want to go back to making 1080 Ti cards.
There are a lot of loyal AMD users on these forums who won't touch NVidia cards because of their pricing and I don't blame them.
Good luck to anyone trying to buy a Radeon VII tomorrow, I hope all goes well.
There are a lot of loyal AMD users on these forums who won't touch NVidia cards because of their pricing and I don't blame them.
Good luck to anyone trying to buy a Radeon VII tomorrow, I hope all goes well.
Soldato
Large numbers lol, less than 2000 units for all of Europe says AMD give little **** about its customers/fans. Same **** with Vega 64 and fury, AMD never fails to disappoint.
60 Hz.
I'm thinking of upgrading my monitor at a later stage though.
They had plenty of Vegas in for launch but they sold out pretty quick, people were more after the LC model and that was the first to sell out.
I really do hope that the Radeon VII sells in large numbers as it will give NVidia some serious competition in an area where they are weak unless they want to go back to making 1080 Ti cards.
There are a lot of loyal AMD users on these forums who won't touch NVidia cards because of their pricing and I don't blame them.
Good luck to anyone trying to buy a Radeon VII tomorrow, I hope all goes well.
It will take more than selling large amounts of one card for AMD to be competition for Nvidia, competitors are necessary but let’s deal with facts and not fiction.
Anyway, as you also said ..... good luck to those trying to get cards, hope their is the volume you need.
Not really, they had terrible stock and just blamed demand when it was really a supply issue.
From what I recall they claimed 1000 cards for that launch. Which while not a massive amount is a decent enough amount.
Soldato
Posts like this are odd, why so much anger? AMD will ramp up production and they will eventually be more available. All GPU's are sparse at first even grossly overpriced Nvidia ones.
So much hate for AMD, what did they do to you exactly? 0_0
Do you even have interest in buying one?
Sigh.
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Soldato
200 units allocated for a population of 70 million here is the UK, it's insulting, now people get ripped of due to no supply as always with any new AMD launch. People will just go buy a 2080 instead, bravo AMD, for the gamers my ass.
China and India's populations are 1.4 billion people each! And AMD is a US-based company. USA must get the larger share.
Man of Honour
Indeed, production and availability will improve over time.
I'm talking ocuk claimed that number being what they had for launch. Between Vega 64 and the LC 64 it was around that many iirc.
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I'm sure Lisa Su doesn't wake up in the morning and hatch a plan to annoy people. They'd produce higher numbers if they could and they deemed it worthwhile.
If AMD are only selling failed Instinct cards then volume might not increase much at all.
The basic fact is it is highly likely the R7 costs around $700 to make, so either AMD only sell failed Instinct cards or They sacrafic a cardcthan can be sold for perhaps $6000 for $700 at production costs just for PR reasons. Either way there likely won't be volume, which is why we have the rumours of 5000 units world wide.
IMO, volume might ,increase later a little but the price point and production costs means it is unlikely AMD will want to capture much market.
Soldato
I feel that we're forgetting that this is a failed instinct chip that hasn't made the cut, therefore production isn't going to be 'ramped up to meet demand' ....?
EDIT - Beaten to it by D.P
EDIT - Beaten to it by D.P