Wednesday, September 27th 2017
GIGABYTE Has No Plans to Release a Custom Radeon RX Vega 64
In what might be shocking news to AMD fans, GIGABYTE has stated that there are no current plans to make a custom Radeon RX Vega 64. This might change in the future. But for now, early Vega 64 adopters have no choice but to settle for the reference design or or custom design cards coming out from other vendors. There is still a light hope for the Vega 56 though, since GIGABYTE didn't discard the possibility of releasing a RX Vega 56 Gaming G1. However, the actual number of units is still unclear considering that GIGABYTE is unable to start production immediately due to various technical difficulties surrounding Vega.
Due to the inconsistency in quality of chips that AMD are providing, AIB partners are having a difficult time establishing a standard GPU frequency for their factory-overclocked cards. Furthermore, temperature reporting is broken. The actual GPU temperature is different from the temperature reported by the GPU which can become a big problem for stability in the long run. And to top it all off, there are three different Vega 10 GPU packages floating around. The molded package consists of the GPU and HBM dies sharing the same height, while there's a 40 μm height difference between them in the unmolded package. Although it seems insignificant, this small difference prevents manufacturers from standardizing a single heatsink design to accommodate all three GPU packages.
Sources:
Tom's Hardware (De), Tom's Hardware
Due to the inconsistency in quality of chips that AMD are providing, AIB partners are having a difficult time establishing a standard GPU frequency for their factory-overclocked cards. Furthermore, temperature reporting is broken. The actual GPU temperature is different from the temperature reported by the GPU which can become a big problem for stability in the long run. And to top it all off, there are three different Vega 10 GPU packages floating around. The molded package consists of the GPU and HBM dies sharing the same height, while there's a 40 μm height difference between them in the unmolded package. Although it seems insignificant, this small difference prevents manufacturers from standardizing a single heatsink design to accommodate all three GPU packages.
36 Comments on GIGABYTE Has No Plans to Release a Custom Radeon RX Vega 64
AMD honestly has no excuse for this fucking debacle. We're talking about massive, hot chips, in which a difference in tolerances of under a millimetre make a huge difference to the noise/thermal profile. And you can bet that Gigabyte doesn't have the time or inclination to design 3 different coolers for the potential Vega variants, then have to manually bin each Vega chip they receive to ensure it fits. They're a company out to make money, having to bugger around with Vega chip variances cuts into their profit, so they're going to do the logical thing and just concentrate on NVIDIA cards which are much less painful and hence more profitable to deal with.
If AMD wants to ship its GPUs, it's gotta make it easy for partners to design custom cards based on them, and right now it's doing exactly the opposite. That is their fault, nobody else's, and they need to get their damn act together.
Meanwhile Gigabyte has already confirmed they're making custom Radeon RX Vega 64
On previous cards, this was a non issue, as RAM was chosen by the vendor, thus they would have physical control of which cards get which components. The RAM also didnt NEED to be cooled like HBM does. if an AIB wanted to make a card with cooled memory, they could specify which type of memory was used on that card irrespective of the manufacturer of the GPU.
With VEGA, the vendors have 0 control on which memory/package they get, and this causes a serious issue when it comes to mass production of PCBs and heatsinks since the memory has inconsistent height, which you would know if you RTFA.
Those articles contain no such proof , just suppositions. So get out of here with your RTFA bs , in fact I advise you to take a better look yourself.
There are no brakes on the FUD train.