AMD Radeon VII will become available in reference design only

Hahaha. Scalpers will buy all the cards who in return will sell them for 1000$+ to AMD fanboys. All content creators are using Nvidia GPUs because all serious rendering software is using CUDA. I don't know where this nonsense that AMD is good for content creators is coming from.

 

You will see it on the market.

 

Well, reference only design such as what they have is fantastic. Also, being able to buy directly from AMD without a stupid markup or worse, mining markup, will be a good thing.

 

Doubtful. On the other hand, I would not be surprised if it is one per customer and nothing more.

 

AMD has already debunked this number.

 

Because AMD buys 4GB HBM2 for the Instinct cards it might be a matter of economics. The cost to produce 16GB vs 2GB might be negligible depending on their inventory and volume pricing.

Not really. They said they will have enough stock to meet gamer demand. At $699, who knows what the demand will be. Given the cost of the components, they will probably be sure to avoid overstocking VII's.

 

No way I could justify this when 1080 Tis are $600 on ebay.

 

If you are gaming, get gaming card. It is that simple.
If you are primarily using compute... Radeon 7 is best you can have unless you move into Pro price range. (But I am not sure where that price range currently starts, nVidia did distort it a lot lately.)

One can probably say something as ridiculous as: "Best compute card of this generation in under $2499."

 

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/news...-coming-radeon-vega-vii-for-february-314.html

 

Baked lies. It has 64 rops. It's a myth already debunked. Please. Stop.

 

I think this card is a stop-gap measure until they launch there GPU series properly in Q3 of 2019

 

With throttled functional FP64 throughput?

 

Its certainly one of the better looking coolers from AMD. Glad they aren't trying to use a blower setup. We need reviews to see just how well it performs.

 

Buildzoid gives an interesting breakdown on the Radeon VII here...

 

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/...-viis-core-configuration-has-been-misreported

 

Well, if FP64 was to be used for cheap occasionally. One can enjoy 50% higher FP64 on Radeon 7 than on Titan RTX which is that $2499 card.
For $699 Radeon 7 does good in FP64. Not exactly much better than Vega 64. But if someone is for real use of FP64, server cards are way to go. MI50 has 13 times higher FP64 than $2499 Titan RTX.

 

So who is making this story up, I don't see a source listed in the news post. Is it Jensen Huang himself or someone else. A limited release of only 5,000 sounds like bull. Pretty certain TSMC and Global Foundries wouldn't allow you to buy such a small amount of dies.
This just sounds like a attack on AMD to kill the hype.
The price is the only thing that sucks about the card.

 

AMD already stated that it will produce more than just 5000 units of the Vega2. Can't find the link right now, it was somewhere here on the boards even.

 

OMG, you're so smart.

 

Exept that no one are waiting for it in the pro segment... Last gen haven't do the job and are only attractive against the lower segment of quadro (the below 500 Euro, the one were you can buy a I3 and a normal GPU instead or Xeon and quadro to do the job).

About the 5000 piece it is not a problem... It is just that it is only to make an announcement because they don't have something yet for the crowd.
Let's wait the next one, that will be better for sure.
Also i am not against the "reference only design" it make it more easy to found WC or passive cooler solution.