AMD 6800 & 6800 XT MBA LAUNCH AT 2PM TODAY - EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK!

[decto]

But that is only $4 per kg. Coming back to these GPUs, obviously they probably don't exist in the first place. But if they did exist, an extra few quid in shipping per unit could just be passed on and no one would notice on an $800 product. Hence, how is shipping a factor? Is there something Im missing here?

I doubt the current GPU's are shipping in containers given the lead time. Some may be being routed that way to land in weeks, but all current stock is probably air freight.
As others have said, air frieght is currently ridiculously expenisve and capacity limited.

 

[Rob Parsons]

I just saw the price on the Gigabyte Aorus master 6800xt ....... £999.99 thats for the version with 2 x dp 1 x hdmi and 1 x usb c and the version with 2x hdmi and 2 x dp

£999.99 !!!!!!!!!

 

[Dontrocktheboat]

I just saw the price on the Gigabyte Aorus master 6800xt ....... £999.99 thats for the version with 2 x dp 1 x hdmi and 1 x usb c and the version with 2x hdmi and 2 x dp

£999.99 !!!!!!!!!

Engage rage mode.

Rage mode on.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

Yeah it might be a grand but it's got a fancy screen on the side where you can see the GPU temp.

 

[Combine Harvester]

I just saw the price on the Gigabyte Aorus master 6800xt ....... £999.99 thats for the version with 2 x dp 1 x hdmi and 1 x usb c and the version with 2x hdmi and 2 x dp

£999.99 !!!!!!!!!

All the pricing just doesn't make any sense. AMD sold 6800xt £50 cheaper than 3080FE and that was a very good buy, but now, somehow, 6800xt AIB models are more expensive than the same AIB model of 3080. I's madness.

 

[Lokken86]

Saw someone trying to sell a poster of a 6800xt on the auction site for £620..

 

[Tiny_D]

Yeah it might be a grand but it's got a fancy screen on the side where you can see the GPU temp.

Thats weird I have been wetting my finger and pressing it onto the back of the GPU die all these years, how fancy is a screen telling it what its doing is!!
Jokes aside lovely looking card, hear amazing things about the cooler the LCD I see people posting it's problematic due to the software.

 

[Tiny_D]

All the pricing just doesn't make any sense. AMD sold 6800xt £50 cheaper than 3080FE and that was a very good buy, but now, somehow, 6800xt AIB models are more expensive than the same AIB model of 3080. I's madness.

This is why when the 3080Fe was out of stock in 3 seconds on that other site today I bought the 3090fe, It's just not going to improve this situation for the foreseeable.

To give you perspective I just sold my 2070 (none Super) for £350 in less than 3 hours on FB, worlds bloody bonkers, its a 2 year old GPU!

 

[Rezident]

A shipping container could easily contain 10,000 pieces of a GPU. That works out to only an extra 32p per unit. Why is this a problem?

These GPUs are HUGE! I don't think you would get 10,000 in a container.

 

[Scorpuk]

Saw someone trying to sell a poster of a 6800xt on the auction site for £620..

 

[Zernath]

These GPUs are HUGE! I don't think you would get 10,000 in a container.

Oh I don't know about that, remove some of the human cargo in those containers, and you'll probably just about do it.

 

[Rob Parsons]

duplicate

 

[p_nut_uk]

Just watched Hardware Unboxed, it's heavily speculated AMDs MSRP is totally unrealistic, pretty much the reason why there weren't many reference designs because they were probably sold at a loss or no profit just to say "hey our card is $650!".

The Sapphire Nitro+ is officially $770 MSRP, The Red Devil is $800 and the board partners say their profit margins are very low, sounds like AMD playing very dirty

 

[RavenXXX2]

Come off it, no profit on a $650 GPU? it's sand and a cooler strapped to it, huge margins for AMD, less so for AIBs.

 

[muon]

Come off it, no profit on a $650 GPU?

Not if AMD charge you say $400 for the GPU.

AMD won't be selling at a loss though. Once you've already spent your money on R&D each chip probably doesn't cost a massive amount unless yields are really bad.

 

[Tinek]

Just watched Hardware Unboxed, it's heavily speculated AMDs MSRP is totally unrealistic, pretty much the reason why there weren't many reference designs because they were probably sold at a loss or no profit just to say "hey our card is $650!".

The Sapphire Nitro+ is officially $770 MSRP, The Red Devil is $800 and the board partners say their profit margins are very low, sounds like AMD playing very dirty

I've been saying it here for quite a while. First NVidia set MSRP on a silly low level, just to stir market up, then FE became vapourware. AMD followed just after with exact same plan - not that they had any option after NVidia set the expectations. But now we see real pricing. It will drop, eventually, in 6 months perhaps? Or when next gen comes. But in either case, not anytime soon.

 

[Rroff]

then FE became vapourware

Hardly vapourware - difficult to get hold of due to demand and not huge volume but loads have sold now.

 

[L-Digital82]

When are the AMD AIB cards on sale?

 

[Sleepy Stu]

When are the AMD AIB cards on sale?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/todays-6800-series-aib-launch-important-info.18908580/

 

[Apache14]

then FE became vapourware.

That was initially true, but the 3070 / 3080 FE cards have been having 1 or 3 drops a week for the last 3 weeks now. So limited supply yes, but people are getting them.