I am willing to give amd a little leeway with my purchasing decision due to that I will actually benefit from the compute performance and Freesync, however my leeway only goes so far.
the pricing sucks
short answer, if this goes any further south for Amd I will be getting a 1080
Well something is definitely going on at the retailers end. There is no reason why RX Vega is priced at 599.99 USD at newegg.com yet is $659.99 USD (converted) on newegg.ca
That is total BS. You can look at Threadripper, Asus Zenith Extreme and so on. There is never an extra charge over conversion. That is price gouging by the retailer plain and simple.
Getting bent over and sent to brown town in Australia too. Iāve waited months to rebuild the system I lost this time last year due to asbestos contamination but the performance/value ratio is getting really skewed from the Australia Tax + AMDās bullshit. I was going to pick up one of those UW Crossover monitors and pair it with a Vega 56 but I can get a 1080 for a little bit more for far better performance. The 1080 will cost less in the long run too due to the high cost of power here.
again, probably not AMD. We donāt know enough to say either way, and itās almost never the highest upstream in products like GPUs just by the nature of their manufacture
I considered the 1080 Ti when I saw the price of RX Vega 64. The two things that stopped me was 1) for my use case the RX Vega 64 is slightly better and 2) I am already invested in waterblocks for RX Vega. Literally 20 to 30 more USD would have made me buy the 1080Ti. I really wanted to give AMD the chance this time around but I have to say I am not enjoying this experience when it come to the graphics side.
LOL, Hardware Unboxed had a video online about the Vega pricing. Steve basically tried to laugh away any concern by pointing at GPU launches in the past and saying āmining makes it worse now but itās nothing new that prices are inflatedā.
Why didnāt they just say that somewhere somebody fudged up the pricing, whether it was AMD itself or if it was a retailer inflating the price or if it was something else thatās happened.
Tek.no has confirmation from komplett.no, komplett is big online retailer here in Scandinavia and was one of the 27 official launch partners worldwide. Just like OCUK they were instructed to only sell a very limited number of GPUs for the lower price and only for launch day (24 hours). Captain Hook special, as somebody said.