Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 Card SKU names surface
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maize1951
$815.07 U.S. Wow!
Loophole35
If that hold true we are going to have to talk a few users on here off a ledge.
Seriously though even if they are not competing with Ti from the start AMD has to price around here considering the cost of making Vega (including R&D and legacy cost).
Eastcoasthandle
Historically, AMD has never targeted nv pricing unless it was competitive to nv offerings. Also, they've been known to sandbag. If this holds out to be true and it's determined that it's competitive to a ti then some (new) feature(s) have been disabled. And won't be enabled until either the review drivers are released or a driver sometime after review drivers.
Right now, 17.7.2 (newly release driver for AMD) is the 1st driver that doesn't work properly with AB and GPUz. So it stands to reason this is some sort of new branch driver.
We will see
Srsbsns
I'm buying it anyway. The fine wine has treated me very well. Its been the opposite from the green team on my last two purchases. Not trying to be biased. Just my own anecdotal experiences but I feel like my Nvidia cards would be screaming one year but as soon as the new cards come out it can no longer handle new games. I know this is more of a conspiracy theory but i think there is some sort of planned obsolescence by nature in Nvidia's unified driver.
Maddness
Geez, they will rule a fair few people out. It would have to be faster or at the very least match the 1080Ti to justify that. Hopefully that pricing is wrong.
Paulo Narciso
With AIO cooling wasn't expecting any miracle.
But asking 700 bucks for 1080 performance level which costs about 550 is only appealing to those who invested in freesync.
Maddness
I don't think that price is appealing to anyone.
Neo Cyrus
So... it costs as much as a 1080 Ti which is supposedly faster and has been out forever. Okay AMD.
maize1951
I hope so to. I used the most recent (todays) Euro to U.S. Dollar exchange rate to get what price it would be here in the states. Still very expensive and I don't see very many people buying them if that's going to be the cost of them here in the states. Only ATI fanboys would buy them at that price.
Redemption80
Savings to be made on the Freesync screen though lol.
Seriously though, if your wanting a high end card/screen combination then Vega could work.
If you already have a Freesync screen, and were looking forward to a good upgrade that wouldn't cost too much then it's a massive disappointment.
Suppose there is the fact that nothing has been confirmed, but even the official AMD information is suggesting that price is accurate.
Jeffs
I know this is rumours and all, but I've seen this kind of pricing two times now on the web. This kind of worries me. I understand that the production cost is high, but if these rumours are indeed true, then you will be paying 1080ti money for something that performs on (maybe slightly higher) 1080 level. It just doesn't make sense, and doesn't justify itself. The whole advantage of freesync monitors will be undone if the price of the corresponding GPU will be 200 euro's higher than Nvidia's counterpart.
I was hoping for a more reasonable pricing... Still lets wait untill they reveal the details and pricing and wait for a review or two. I still can't wait for this thing to come out though.
sammarbella
I'm Spanish and in live in Spain as the article says including taxes (21%) and distributors margin (very conservative amount) the cheaper model will cost 750 euros and the watercooled model will cost 960 euros.
If somebody thought Nvidia raped his wallet with outrageous prices, this is AMD gangbang raping your wallet.
SirDremor
A-ha-ha-ha! Awesome prices!
Anything between 699 Euro and 899 Euro is just so cool.
vbetts, do you think I again overstepped your tolerance?
Don't you also think these prices are awesome?
Brasky
I just hoped for a bit more of a competition.
user1
I suspect a reason for the higher than assumed prices could be due to low production volume, if you can't make enough cards to meet the demand at 400-600$ why bother pricing it there.
If i recall correctly The fury X had very low production volume for the first 2-3 months.
Ehsany
I have used AMD cards for ages all the way back from the 5000 series to the R9 290 all in 2,3,and 4 crossfire. Since AMD went to sleep all those years , i had no choice but to move to the green team and have been using 2x 980 ti for the past year and half or so. I have been holding out for Vega all this time knowing that throughout the years, AMD gave me a better bang for my buck. If the new Vega will end up costing me more than the 1080 ti at even 15% performance increase over the 1080 Ti, i still won't touch it with a 1000 foot pole! Are you kidding me!
Also free sync is not what everyone is going for! The whole comparison between free sync and g sync should have a minmal effect on pricing not be the deciding one!
:bang:
coth
even more, considering electricity bills for it and air conditioner.
Ricepudding
If the price of this is correct it is basically DOA, it's priced far too high, you can get a 1080ti for the same or cheaper than this, and from what we have seen it has less power than the 1080(non-ti).
So unless AMD knows something we don't i hope these prices are wrong
Only reason i can see for these high prices is because of coin mining
Redemption80
As much as it's being pushed by AMD marketing, Freesync will play a large part.
No one with a Freesync monitor will buy a 1080ti and anyone looking for a GPU monitor combination should consider Vega.
It all depends on how it does in games not hand picked by AMD though, it can be slower and more expensive if the difference isn't gameplay changing, but if it means that 4k gaming is consistently under 60fps then I don't see how it will sell.
Ehsany
Spot on! If you look at one of most popular online pc parts retailer deal of the day, you will see 3 out of 4 deals on pc monitors has freesync! Not only that, but a 28" 4k is going for $299! I guess i was wrong, freesync is going to be the main factor here. Despite that, it's still a no go for me and probably to many others.
