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Radeon RX Vega for consumers might still be out a couple of months
Much has been said and spoken about AMD’s upcoming consumer release of Radeon RX Vega. The latest news now is that it might take a couple of more months before we see the actual product in stores.
The latest news is based up-on a reddit spot (and just that). Apparently Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD has stated in a JP Morgan conference that and I quote “RX Vega to be launched a "couple months" after Vega FE”. Now, the transcript of that conference is not yet available to the public, hence I cannot verify and factually check that statement myself.
But considering the VEGA FE is available late June, we might assume (if this is correct and true) that the consumer version of Vega will be available not earlier than August or September, maybe July at best. If true this is a big blow in the faces of the AMD Radeon PC gaming community as pretty much everybody is expecting that the long wait would be over after the pending Computex announcements.
AMD to date has not explained as they the delays keep piling up, we can only assume that there are issues with getting proper volume HBM2 memory. Hence the expensive business cards get priority, as the margin on such cards is much higher than the consumer-end products.
Thanks go out to to Denial from our forums for spotting this one.
AMD’s senior marketing director Chris Hook last week tweeted a photo showing the actual card in their Markham, Ontario labs.
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#5434563 Posted on: 05/22/2017 07:48 PM
And this is a example why AMD is always behind. Too bad, guess my next build will still be Nvidia.
And this is a example why AMD is always behind. Too bad, guess my next build will still be Nvidia.
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#5434565 Posted on: 05/22/2017 07:53 PM
If this is true then Vega will be DoA.
By the time Vega is out Volta will be released or will be near release.
So it won't matter. Vega supposed to compete with GTX10XX which is already 1 year old.
I hope it will not be too late for Vega and I hope those news are not true.
If this is true then Vega will be DoA.
By the time Vega is out Volta will be released or will be near release.
So it won't matter. Vega supposed to compete with GTX10XX which is already 1 year old.
I hope it will not be too late for Vega and I hope those news are not true.
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#5434566 Posted on: 05/22/2017 07:53 PM
Raja already confirmed it wouldn't be out by the end of June, when asked about the Frontier Edition being used for gaming.
Raja already confirmed it wouldn't be out by the end of June, when asked about the Frontier Edition being used for gaming.
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#5434567 Posted on: 05/22/2017 08:00 PM
This is not good news for anyone that was hoping to upgrade in the first half of 2017. I have a couple of friends that were hoping for an AMD release this month, in order to drive down NViDIA pricing if nothing else.
This is not good news for anyone that was hoping to upgrade in the first half of 2017. I have a couple of friends that were hoping for an AMD release this month, in order to drive down NViDIA pricing if nothing else.
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AMD lost quite a bit of money by not making a GDDR5X card like Nvidia did. It's quite bizarre Nvidia knew the HBM2 situation better than AMD despite AMD being the inventor of the thing.