Custom models of the Radeon RX Vega 64 Further Delayed - Vega 56 later

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/21/2017 06:24 AM | source: | 12 comment(s)

It looks like AMD Vega, and in specific the custom boards will be delayed even more. Chatter in the channel indicates that the board partners have not event received their GPU orders from AMD just yet. Currently the only custom board we have had hands on is the STRIX from ASUS, a review which ASUS asked us to pull.

They gents over at German Hardwareluxx asked some board parters about custom Vega, and did confirm what is already known. They did not name the respective manufacturer by name and do not use any quotes

Manufacturer A: The custom models for the Radeon RX Vega 64 and Vega 56 are ready to market. However they waiting for AMD's GPUs. Radeon-RX-Vega-56 might be delayed indefinitely.
Manufacturer B: AMD's product planning involved first placing the reference models on the market. However, availability is a major concern also cuasing a the delay of custom models. They can not specify an appointment or time period when you can expect your own designs.
Manufacturer C: According to the manufacturer the release and final specification specification of AMD is missing. GPUs should not be delivered yet, assuming that there will be no products before mid-October. They did not want to comment on the development of your custom cards.
Manufacturer D: Also a delay in the delivery of GPUs. To the actual state of the development of one's own custom cards, they did not want to express themselves.

As reported on HWL, AMD initially wanted to supply GPUs to the partners by September 11th for the custom cards. Currently it seems this delivery date was missed and delayed by an unknown timeframe. The board partners are confised because they have no further information on how to proceed. This means shop availability of Vega 64 in a custom design will not see the light of day anytime sooner than Late October, maybe even November.

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Robbo9999
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#5473874 Posted on: 09/21/2017 07:02 AM

Wow, the clusterduck continues! All those poor miners!

ladcrooks
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#5473876 Posted on: 09/21/2017 07:07 AM

Been looking forward for reviews on custom boards, on the verge of buying a new gpu. The heat and power so far has put me off!
at a loss to what to get! All the time these are delayed other prices remain high

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#5473883 Posted on: 09/21/2017 08:02 AM

Is this all due to HBM2 availability and complications around that and getting enough GPU's ready so they can start shipping to board partners for their own PCB designs? Guessing Asus pulled something to get that Strix GPU readied but that in turn seems to have run into some bios problems so even that design will probably take a while to hit the market and general availability.

Interesting, although having this solved now should at least help for whatever comes around next year, guess that's what this 12nm news might be part of although it's for both CPU's and GPU's so maybe not so much about the memory chips after all and whatever is going on with those.

Well if there's three or so separate plants and thus that issue with differences between the three then availability must be pretty scarce, tech perhaps wasn't quite ready for mass availability but eh I suppose it's better to have all these issues over with early though Vega is going to suffer from both that and possibly other problems in it's architecture going by various posts on why it performs like it does under certain scenarios.
(Which I don't fully understand myself but if Ryzen and ThreadRipper can keep AMD afloat then having Vega as a bit of a bust on the GPU front might be salvageable while they work on whatever it's successor will turn into.

But what do I know.)

EDIT: Well I guess that Asus GPU isn't getting a new bios after all, interesting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/719vy7/no-new-bios-coming-for-asus-strix-vega-64-oc/

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#5473885 Posted on: 09/21/2017 08:03 AM

I've already decided I'm going to skip this whole generation of GPU's and hope that the next gen isn't over inflated by miners. This poor gtx 980 will just have to do.

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#5473899 Posted on: 09/21/2017 08:56 AM

tech perhaps wasn't quite ready for mass availability

Isn't it safe to say already that it absolutely wasn't ready at all? It's becoming more and more clear they sent Raja Koduri to a long vacation so that the poor man wouldn't hurt himself due to this situation AMD's ill decisions gave birth to.

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