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- Thread starter DragonQ
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Only thing Nvidia currently reign supreme at is the £1k plus market, coupled with retro space invaders included for some cards.
Meanwhile in this reality.
Its way to early to tell just how this is all going to pan out yet.
Because having quadruple the required VRAM instead of double the required VRAM and costing twice as much would be a massive selling point over Vega if mining was still strong
Lol but seriously.... it seems strange that they havent tried to undercut Nvidia and get some monies....Only thing Nvidia currently reign supreme at is the £1k plus market, coupled with retro space invaders included for some cards.
It's priced against the equivalent Nvidia card, the sweetner for the deal is having double the VRAM (instead of the same but lower price).
16GB of HBM2 is expensive
Interposed is expensive
7nm process is expensive.
And being a salvage part of the MI60 Instinct, there won't be a huge supply so pricing it high limits demand
It is a salvage part. Any vega20 chips that don't make it to be the Instinct part get repackaged as vega7
But none of us gamers will use more that 10gb of RAM... seems like they just shoved in extra RAM so they could increase the price...
Soldato
It isn't though.
You can buy a 2080 today for a shade under £650...which is what the Vega 7 will probably come out at.
Caporegime
Imagine how much the custom cards are gona be, especially the Anus
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I believe that they had to double the memory to double the bandwidth. We know vega 64 responds very well to memory overclocks, more so than core overclocks, it's probably needed to get the extra performance rather than with the expectation the memory will get full during gaming.
Imagine how much the custom cards are gona be, especially the Anus
The ref cooler looks good and it seems to have some venting in it, something Nvidia didn't bother with for their Fe cooler. A few months back people were basically saying if amd had a 1080ti performance card they would buy it, well they got their wish. If it's 2080 performance it's a bit over 1080ti performance.
Price imo is around £50 too much though.
Soldato
These better come with HDMI 2.1
The problem is with HBM it is even harder to use arbitrary vram sizes. An 8GB version would have half the bandwidth. With 2 stacks of HBM you are stuck with 8 or 16GB given current supplies.
I expect there is also a side effect of this being a salvage part from the Instinct gpu. Those have 16GB. It may be the binning for these gaming cards is after the expensive and complex mounting of you and HBM on interposer. At which point you can't change the memory.
Might want to reference some posts back when rtx series launched. Had plenty on here going on about it.
If it's as fast as the 2080 then that only places the ludicrously priced 2080ti above it.