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VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!

BadIronTree said:
For NAVI they said something for expand-ability and Next gen Memory

What is next gen ? GDDR 6 ? HBM3 ?
Are they planning to do something like Threadripper with GPUs ?
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My bet is it will be HBM3, but don't get too excited like I got about HBM2, as they will only go and let you down by using a single stack this time, so it will only be 512 GB/s of bandwidth at most :p

LeMson said:
Anyone built a 4k vega gaming PC yet for $1k ?
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It will cost me around that much just to buy Vega AIO today, let alone the rest of the PC, and it still won't really be a proper 4K gaming PC, for that you need 1080Ti performance at least :p
 
Gerard said:
Yup, a few places have had stock of the blower version for a few days now. The aio cooled one is the hard one to get, and at £800 i don't see too many shifting, £162 price increase that's nothing but pure profiteering. And to be perfectly honest, even at £638 its overpriced for the performance it delivers. Should be £550-£599 tops.
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Agreed.

TNA said:
Wolfenstein benchmarks will be interesting to see. Lets see if this "rapid packed math" is worth anything.
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Yep.

Shin1234 said:
What makes you say that, looks fine to me https://youtu.be/fM__Y_5npPI
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It'll be fine in some games.
 
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Is RPM possibly twice the performance on those elements

BadIronTree said:
For NAVI they said something for expand-ability and Next gen Memory

What is next gen ? GDDR 6 ? HBM3 ?
Are they planning to do something like Threadripper with GPUs ?
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Navi isnt till 2 years time from now most likely so I wouldnt wait or rely on any details. I think its 7nm and apparently its possible each card will have multiple GPU on one board working together. Like a 7990 but way less heat and far more integration between the two chips, like a multi core CPU hopefully
 
TNA said:
It was selling when priced decently, now that it is priced silly, suddenly sales have slowed down. On top of that anyone that may have been on the fence, AMD pushed them over with their antics. Many people just went and gave money to the competition. Very sad situation.
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It's that stupid pack price to combat miners. It makes it worse over here where there is no pack, just the free games.
 
melmac said:
It's that stupid pack price to combat miners. It makes it worse over here where there is no pack, just the free games.
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Making it £600 to discourage miners that will happily pay £800 doesn't seem to be working. It's just making gamers not buy or go to the green team. The only thing that's discouraged miners is Gibbo's restrictions on how many you can buy.
 
Gerard said:
TDM mode possibly, in conquest mode that frame-rate would be taking major hits, it's only just managing to stay over 60 fps. It even goes into the 50's indoors for some reason.
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Ask that amd rep guy ben todo it in conquest to show if there is a dif as it his video. But at end of day its in dx11, primitive discard aint enabled yet, the drivers are junk, its within freesync range and that is 4k.
 
melmac said:
It's that stupid pack price to combat miners. It makes it worse over here where there is no pack, just the free games.
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I think this is where the confusion lies on pricing. I can imagine AMD stating the $499 MSRP price is correct for the GPU on its own without the games pack, but those aren't available to purchase, just the pack and that costs $599.

Plausible deniability for all the BS we are getting over prices.
 
ICDP said:
I think this is where the confusion lies on pricing. I can imagine AMD stating the $499 MSRP price is correct for the GPU on its own without the games pack, but those aren't available to purchase, just the pack and that costs $599.

Plausible deniability for all the BS we are getting over prices.
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Their splitting of the V64 air SKUs into $499 standalone and $599 gamer pack is ostensibly an attempt to have a gamer-focussed option that is less attractive to miners, but without yielding the promised price point. In practice the inevitable selling out of the $499 SKU just leads to people suspecting that it's limited to such small numbers that it effectively doesn't exist. That's then interpreted as AMD using the $499 SKU as a cynical marketing ploy, because from our POV there's no real difference between the SKUs, it's just how many rebates AMD is willing to give to retailers.
 
We still don't know what rrp price the AIB partner cards will be or have they been confirmed to come in pack bundles too?

That's the best and simplest save from this mess, have the custom cards rrp at $499 and it may have bee the intention from the start, who knows. Of course custom cards they always sit higher than the rrp with only an handful of exceptions, and those are nearly always the models with cheaper build and component quality to save on costs.
 
TNA said:
You buying a Vega Jedi? I am sure the price won't be putting you off, I heard somewhere you have no issues with paying a premium :p;)
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Nah I've made my bed thanks, and what a lovely comfy bed it is!! This will power through games til Volta Ti easily :D :cool:

£780?? BARGAIN!! I'll have 3 :p
 
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