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SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega64 8G HBM2

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chesebert

Sep 23, 2017

$150 over MSRP? Why is this even on here and why do I even come here if there is no assurance of a good deal on products (wait forever for products with questionable warranty service terms).

Sep 23, 2017

xenonnati

Sep 23, 2017

chesebertwhere i'm from a vega 64 costs 1200$ . also vega MSRP is at 600$ not 500$ 500$ was the starting early adopter price.. the cards cost AMD 600$ .. so every card they would sell at 500 they'd lose 100$ because HBM2 is extremely costly. no reason to buy this for anyone not into mining, or not for productivity. gaming just get a 1080.

Sep 23, 2017

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xenonnati

Sep 23, 2017

xenonnatinot defending AMD here, its just they are in a bad way with vega, its an architecture designed back when the 200 series was out, they once again over engineered and under optimized their cards, because of this the price is high to begin with, then there's someone on the retail chain adding a shit ton on top of the already slightly bloated price they have on these cards. and the sad part is AMD is NOT seeing any of that money, so even tough cards are selling out in my country at 1200$ .. amd barely gets their 600$ for them which about breaks even with spending .. so they make almost no money at all with Vega RX cards .. they just prefer to at least have an answer to nVidia, however bad, than to not have anything at all.. its a real shitshow with this card, they would've been better off not releasing them at all. but that's AMD for ya..

Sep 23, 2017

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chesebert

Sep 23, 2017

xenonnatiThere is no such thing as an"early adopter price" for any Vega card. This whole pricing shitstom was perpetrated by greedy distributors and retailers. Very few honest retailers ill sell at the MSRP but their stock gets depleted within minutes of being available.
Regarding MSRP in your neck of the woods, you can thank your local government for jacking up various taxes and regional distributors and wholesellers for price gauging.

Sep 23, 2017

Anzial

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Sep 23, 2017

chesebertActually, it's not always government. One issue could be corruption. Another - tiny markets make it unfeasible to sell expensive tech without huge markups.

Sep 23, 2017

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xenonnati

Sep 24, 2017

chesebertprices on all AMD cards are extremely high and have been almost all year. a 580 costs go from 575 up to 650, which is about the MSRP for a 1070 here. the reason behind it is Miners buying out entire stock of the very few retailers selling them and retailers notice this so they keep increasing the price.. not being regulated by any form of law on this matter and having a temporary monopoly on vega (vega right now is exclusively available trough 1 single web retailer chain in the country) they are jacking the prices to shit. but that's not what my issue was, reading up on it it seems i was completely wrong on the MSRP it is at the original stated price, its just that the prices are being inflated by someone other then AMD so AMD isn't making that huge profit that people think they are making with these cards.

Sep 24, 2017

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