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VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!
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Plenty of stock a week after launch, across different retailers tells its own story. Price v performance isn't there, so stock isn't selling. Only a matter of time until the price drops.
The only ones that are hard to get is the aio and limited edition. The black shroud card is available on a lot of sites. Think amd might have wanted to make the limited card the stock card as people don't seem to like the plastic black shroud much in comparison.
Soldato
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But not if the retailers already had to pay more than £450 for the stock. It will still need approval/rebates from the suppliers.
The retailers already paid for the stock so AMd dont neccessarily care if its selling slowly.
Any price cuts will obviously have to come via AMD. Depends if they are happy to sit on stock, especially if they are sold on a sale or return basis. No idea what's common in pc component industry.
Nope, not at the currently artificially inflated price at least. £600 for a card with a shroud taken off the rx480 reference card? Nah.
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Who knows, do we even know stock levels as it seems some multiple aibs are pushing stock out
my view of this whole price saga is this, we all understand that companies need to make a profit and this is aimed at AMD and Nvidia, a few years ago when the HD7970 came out I bought a couple from OCUK, they were under 300 each for the fastest or 2nd fastest card on the market at the time, i think it was neck and neck with the 680 if I recall, now about 4 years on we have 100% inflation of the best GPU's on the market, it's unacceptable to me and I won't spend that kind of money on a GPU (and yes I could afford to but I won't on priciple) I am running a r9 390 now, again I got a sapphire one on a black friday deal at OCUK and I think it was £225, problem for me is that there are plenty of people who are quite happy to spend £500 - £1000 + for a GPU and unfortunately whilst that happens prices will just continue to inflate, I mean how ridiculous is it that I can sell my r9 390 on auction for more than what I paid for it? I'm getting to the point where Im seriously thinking of getting rid of my rig and taking up golf or something.
Under 300 each? Must have been well after launch as the 7970 was priced much higher than that. I think it was around £500+ on launch. After googling it they were between £462 upto around £560 for air cooled versions.
It's going back some time but it was about april 2012 and both were the powercolor PC+ models so 4 months after launch, either way I cant see them coming down in price and the custom cooled will probably be over 600, I cant even go down the nvidia route because I have 3 freesync monitors
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Probably one of AMDs worst cards ever, years late, more expensive and vastly more power hungry than the competition. Obviously this is a compute/data sever card first with gaming an afterthought. Until AMD follows Nvidia's lead and develops dedicate gaming cards to compete, then it will always be Radeon fail.
According to AMD demand is "exceeding expectations" so why would they drop the price? I think it's another Fury in that it's probably not profitable at any saleable price so they're happy for it to sell badly, they just need to be seen to be competing that's all.
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At most itll be 30 days, often its payment before shipment from places like taiwan
Retailers will just reduce their orders or cancel them depending on demand if that's the case. They can't afford to have a few hundred grand of stock not selling and gathering dust. Far better for them to make a small profit and move it. At £450 vega 64 will sell no problem, even £480. No chance at £580.
If demand is exceeding expectation then its funny how i can go to 3 or 4 sites right now and order one or two with no issues.
Demand might be there for the aio one and the aluminium shroud version, but its not there for the basic black shroud version.
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Well thats what i was on about above, its all good for one person togo the warehouse is full cos no ones buying them and another person togo the supplys are cycling and tons coming in now from dif aib's and there selling like hotcakes. Unless all retailers give us inventery numbers we dont have a scooby.
I honestly think demand is there for the liquid cooled and aluminium shroud and not so much for the black version. The liquid one has been in and out of stock on other sites and it never seems to last long, while all the while the black shroud versions remain in stock. The aluminium blower version doesn't seem to have been in stock anywhere since launch, but the black version has been in stock at a few places since about 2 days after launch.
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Well ye i think the watercooled one is the most atractive, its what the people who dont want full wc system will grab and just not care about heat. But also on the same hand we have what, powerplay, msi and gigabyte is it AIB's cards in stock all over, and just pointing out all dif prices for a black pack but its how many of each at what retailers.