Reviews AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 Review

Going back to what V-T said about price gouging, it's a little known fact but the AMD CPU and GPU Divisions are to all intents and purposes seperate companies still, just under a unified brand; there is certainly no love shown/shared towards one another even now as the GPU Division still views itself as a suppressed and very much resentful ATi.

 

Sounds like the $499 is an introductory offer that won't last forever.
I'm more interested in the 56 myself but if the not-known-before-launch MSRP includes a price discount which then disappears i think it's a real bad show on AMD's part.

 

That seems odd as arguably AMD's recent CPU and GPU designs seem to both be targeting the same market with post fabrication changes made so as to better address other markets, that's not to say each division doesn't see themselves as separate companies but there must be some overarching decision making going on.

 

Didn't the FuryX have a 4096-bit memory bus? The table on page 1 shows it had a 1024-bit one.

 

Someone needs to update the MSRP for the article as apparently the $499 for the V64 was a launch price only.

 

So half of that £/$200 advantage of Freesync VS G-Sync goes straight out the window on MSRP alone, another £/$25-50 will evaporate if you want a properly cooled, non ear-bleeder AIB version, and the rest will no doubt be more than covered by awful availability, and subsequent price-gouging, because of poor yields...

So there is now precisely ZERO reasons to consider a Vega 64.

/slow clap

 

The AMD statement on that kitguru article is weird, what is the AMD PR department smoking?

 

That must have been added in the last hour, goes off to have a read.

It is a bit weird isn't it, they only seem to talking about stock level and not price.

Having just thought about it some more in effect what their saying is that a V64 on it's own costs $499 but those were limited in stock and from now on you're only going to be able to buy a V64 with two "free" games for an extra $100.

 

AMD are smoking something and no one is buying.

In the uk the price gap from a 1080 to a Vega64 is £150. Once all In one board partners do there job Vega64 is above the 1080ti all price tiers but without the performance to back it up.

AMD are too late and too slow to matter, even if you have a freesync monitor the 1080ti is faster and still will max out to the Max hz of said monitor the better ones are all 144hz anyway.

 

I read today that apparently the rebate AMD gave retailers for the £430 and $499 cards made it so that AMD made nothing. Their fault entirely. Obese die with very spenny memory tends to do that. This is why Nvidia stopped making Fermi after Fermi.