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

does anyone know if there is a limit of 1 x amd vega 56 per customer or can i order 2 ?
me and my mate wanted to save postage on postage, saying that does anyone know what postage would be ?

thanks
 
I would imagine that there should be more stock of the 56, just because of the simple fact that in theory on a wafer there should be more 56 chips than 64s.
 
I don't know if I want a 56 or not.

Good:
High chance of it being like a 290 and competing with later releases
Current performance will keep you going until Navi
Price is going to get worse and AIB cards are not going to be as "cheap"
Huge potential from memory overclocking and power target

Bad:
Reference blower
AIB cards could be a vast improvement on sustained performance, temperatures and noise
Vega 20 refresh could occur with higher HBM2 supply and lower GPU demands, less uncertainty on prices and more refined product
Is the memory overclocking going to be limited by lower quality units or voltage restriction?

I'm leaning towards no again. Vega is just not feeling right to me.
 
FFS. Would have bitten for a 64 at £450 but that's already borderline more than it's worth. £470-480, no thanks. I'd already have to replace my PSU to use it.

Prices just keep creeping up even when they're being brought back down artificially. :(
 
But yes as Beany_bot said HBM2 could be a limiting factor (even though the 56 HBM2 is potentially available in more quantity than the overclocked HBM2 that is on the 64), or they will likely hold dies back for the AIBs as well (I didn't think of that one)

They definitely won't be locking any 64s down on purpose, though there could be a similar case as with the Fiji Pro
 
MichaelM said:
I don't know if I want a 56 or not.

Good:
High chance of it being like a 290 and competing with later releases
Current performance will keep you going until Navi
Price is going to get worse and AIB cards are not going to be as "cheap"
Huge potential from memory overclocking and power target

Bad:
Reference blower
AIB cards could be a vast improvement on sustained performance, temperatures and noise
Vega 20 refresh could occur with higher HBM2 supply and lower GPU demands, less uncertainty on prices and more refined product
Is the memory overclocking going to be limited by lower quality units or voltage restriction?

I'm leaning towards no again. Vega is just not feeling right to me.
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The thing about Vega is that to be competitive at this late stage and against tried and tested Pascal, and tried and respected Nvidia. It had to be cheaper, faster, quieter, and more efficient.

Sadly it is literally none of those things.
 
Same

I really want to buy it but the struggle is where to find it will be a positive over competing Nvidia cards

The Ref card, Power Draw & more importantly noise
 
If you got one at 350, it's marginally outperforming 1070s in lots of games, and can only improve with drivers... that said u have to question the value when nvidia release new cards at end of this year or early next.
 
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