Wednesday, January 16th 2019

AMD's Initial Production Run of Radeon VII Just 5,000 Pieces, Company Denies it
More news coming in on AMD's upcoming high-end graphics card, the Radeon VII, with Chinese media reporting that AMD's initial production run for the card is set to ship just 5,000 pieces worldwide. This comes hot on the heels of another report that the Radeon VII won't come in custom-designs by AMD's add-in board (AIB) partners, and that only the reference design will be repackaged and sold by them. What's worse, the source which leaked this production size also revealed that AMD is selling the card below cost-price, i.e., with each card sold, AMD is losing money. This probably explains Wall Street's cold response to the Radeon VII launch, but with a batch size of just 5,000 (roughly $3.5 million in sales at $699 a piece), this card has a negligible impact on AMD's bottom-line.
AMD posted a swift denial to both pieces of news, the size of its production run and the product's profitability. In a statement to MyDrivers, AMD said (translated): "We will not release production figures, but when released on February 7, AMD.com official website and AIB vendor partners will have products on sale, and we expect the supply of Radeon VII to meet the needs of gamers." In short, Radeon VII is shaping up to be the card you'd want to buy if you've sworn a blood-oath never to buy an NVIDIA product, and you need something to play games in 2019 at 4K with.
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MyDrivers, MyDrivers (2)
AMD posted a swift denial to both pieces of news, the size of its production run and the product's profitability. In a statement to MyDrivers, AMD said (translated): "We will not release production figures, but when released on February 7, AMD.com official website and AIB vendor partners will have products on sale, and we expect the supply of Radeon VII to meet the needs of gamers." In short, Radeon VII is shaping up to be the card you'd want to buy if you've sworn a blood-oath never to buy an NVIDIA product, and you need something to play games in 2019 at 4K with.
124 Comments on AMD's Initial Production Run of Radeon VII Just 5,000 Pieces, Company Denies it
I know 8K doesn't really matter, but it will be interesting to see if there are scenarios where that 16GB 4096-bit bus really gets a chance to flex its muscles.
*No-Rebates* includes the 3 Free Games
I am still holding out hope this website won't go Full Tomshardware lol.
Some site take a huge dip (TPU is not exempt) in traffic when there is no releases, some down 35-50%.
This is clearly a fluff story to create buzz about the release, which it really doesn't need. This is a good step and will be a good GPU until Navi. Although, Radeon 7 does prove AMD is working to answer NVidia's new RTX hotness. Lovin the competition!
Edit: Jay had some interesting thoughts;
HBM2, 4096-bit, 7nm..... The hardware nerd in me is tempted to play with cutting edge tech.... Even if it is half-baked lol LOL a Jayz2IQpoints video. My lord I cannot understand why people listen to someone who has failed basic benchmarking multiple times, and doesn't understand Supply-and-Demand. The guy is a straight up hack.
Both Radeon (VII) and RTX-series offers features the other doesn't
If i never had the frontier Editions, These would have been the Card to get, from my Point of view.
For now, im sitting confortably with my 1300 euro a Pop Video Cards. Ya, better 1300 on a vega Card, than 1300 on some nvidia Shill.
Nvidia, may the go bankrupt and disolve in the ether. So humanity can advance technologically ! I thought my Yellow Watercooled Frontier Vegas are collectors Edition, you cant find them anywhere These days at reasonable Prices. Not that 1300 euro a Pop was anywehre Close to reasonable !
finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-powered-supercomputers-unleash-discovery-140000252.html
They're most likely sold by the 10s of thousands to customers like Google, Apple, Amazon, and defense contractors. They go into systems that are classified as "corporate secrets."
But if it turns out that this card is a low volume production, then it really doesn't matter how good it is, because you can't get it…