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Yeah probably.
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VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!
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Yeah probably.
I wonder if that's on top of the back orders?
The whole pricing is a joke. What's AMD's marketing strategy? Drip feed "retail" price cards in while selling the the one with "free games" for another hundred quid. Lost a lot of credibility with this whatever anyone thinks of Vega performance.
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Doubtful, it'll be total imo.
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The LC looks good there, its just the power consumption and price.
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It seemed Miners did not cared about RX Vega 64 poor mining performance but regardless no matter how overpriced RX Vega cards are, miners still buy all RX Vega 56 and RX Vega 64 cards when RX 580 are not in stocks.
A guy called Hollie in UK bought 10 RX Vega 64 cards to use for mining at 1,122 MH/s consumed 5500W.
Hollie probably bought all cards from OCUK or ebay with all cards sold all traced back to retailer OCUK.
Unfortunately RX Vega price will be very high just like RX 580 for very long time probably through to the end of 2017 and possible through 2018 too.
A guy called Hollie in UK bought 10 RX Vega 64 cards to use for mining at 1,122 MH/s consumed 5500W.
Hollie probably bought all cards from OCUK or ebay with all cards sold all traced back to retailer OCUK.
Unfortunately RX Vega price will be very high just like RX 580 for very long time probably through to the end of 2017 and possible through 2018 too.
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Jesus. Does make me glad that I bought before all this crazy stuff started!!! 
And availability.
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Yeah, and that as well
It's baffling how theres so many air cooled versions with the crap looking shroud and zero stock of the aluminium or the aio cards. Seems like aluminium is some magical element that needs to be mined by Gnomes before Gandalf rubs his staff over it (hyuk) before it can be manufactured into a shroud. And water-coolers seem to be at a premium as well as there's been nothing to say that the chip on the aio card is binned for speed, so presumably the cooler itself is the source of the holdup.
Aluminium is harder to find. Whereas Aluminum is easier, due to it glowing in the dark.
Source: Someone really asked me this in the past
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AMD tells GamersNexus 'No plans to go back to GDDR5'
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Because gddr6 will be out by the time they release any more cards
Plus we know that AMD like burning money! I'd be shocked if HBM3 didn't have as many problems as 1 and 2 tbh, but if nVidia jump in at that point then it'll at least bring the costings down generally.
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Plus AMD only do a one for all, so they can't use GDDR5 anyway, as their chips also have to do compute etc...
AMD love doing it.
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I think in time they'll also separate their chips like nVidia do, just don't suppose they had the funding to do it right now.
They kinda did to a degree, for a while. Tahiti (7970) and Hawaii(290X) for example had pitcairn (7870) and tonga (285), respectively. Smaller dies (with no double precision) to the larger sibling. Nvidia went bigger sooner with its fp64 and fp32 dies (security from HPC contracts and larger market in any event) while AMD were somewhat conservative in the first fp64/fp32 round (Tahiti and pitcairn) which helped them get to market sooner, only producing what you could call the equivalent to the GK 110 (780) and GK 104 (680) later with Hawaii and tonga which also approximated the performance of the Nvidia like-for-like counterparts.
Since then its Nvidia committing further to the co-development of two lines (Volta GV100 with DP and specialist hardware like its tensor cores, and a scaled-back single precision line for consumer graphics and industry/professional use that doesn't require fp64). AMD haven't brought out a fresh fp64 chip since Hawaii and Vega is actually out fp64'd by Tahiti let alone Hawaii.