Wednesday, February 6th 2019
UK's Allocation of Radeon VII a Grand Total of 100-200 at Launch
Update February 6, 2019: Our colleagues at Kitguru were able to talk more recently with Gibbo from OcUK, who now clarified there may be anywhere between 100-200 Radeon VII available in the UK at launch, and possibly more coming after that. Take all statements with a grain of salt accordingly. The original story is below.
In what could add credibility to reports of AMD's initial production batch of the Radeon VII being no more than 5,000 pieces, a representative of British PC hardware retailer Overclockers UK posted on the OCUK forums that the inventory for the UK is no more than 100 pieces. From this, OCUK has stocked up 44 cards, and a few more are on the way. In a forum post, "Gibbo" mentions that OCUK will have more than half the Radeon VII graphics cards allocated to the UK market. Sales of the card go live at14:00 BST, on the 7th of February. AMD is probably playing the Radeon VII launch close to the chest, and future production batches will be greenlit looking at how quick these 5,000-odd cards fly off the shelves.
Source:
Gibbo (OCUK Forums)
In what could add credibility to reports of AMD's initial production batch of the Radeon VII being no more than 5,000 pieces, a representative of British PC hardware retailer Overclockers UK posted on the OCUK forums that the inventory for the UK is no more than 100 pieces. From this, OCUK has stocked up 44 cards, and a few more are on the way. In a forum post, "Gibbo" mentions that OCUK will have more than half the Radeon VII graphics cards allocated to the UK market. Sales of the card go live at14:00 BST, on the 7th of February. AMD is probably playing the Radeon VII launch close to the chest, and future production batches will be greenlit looking at how quick these 5,000-odd cards fly off the shelves.
72 Comments on UK's Allocation of Radeon VII a Grand Total of 100-200 at Launch
He's probrably an Nvidia marketing "Boy" doing a smear campaign.... And you have to wonder why.
Could it really be THAT good, to the point they are running scared of it?
Only one I'm directly aware of that would know ATM is w1zzard and he can't say anything until the 7th of course.
Such anti-AMD (Or anti-anyone else) trolling has no place here - The mods just need to toss him out and be done with it as far as I'm concerned.
As for the card itself, we will find out soon enough.
Users need to report the post, not respond, and move on instead of adding to the mess the staff needs to clean up (the irony is not lost that I did the same thing here, LOL - but seriously, I can see several people responding to the guy... report it and move on. :)
>100 Avaliable
Hah!
So much for that
i dont have a horse in this race so im not overly bothered..
i dont much believe the only 100 cards thing. but could be i guess..
i also dont see why it wont be compareable to a 2080 (not like that was miles better than last gen)
but i dont see where people re getting a price that is $100 more than the msrp i have seen, unless they are just saying that to make the 2080 look better or the msrp has changed and i missed the memmo.
www.anandtech.com/show/13832/amd-radeon-vii-high-end-7nm-february-7th-for-699
Odd there's people who just can't wrap their head around that, or just caught off guard. It's not to make huge profit (better than not selling than at all) or a volume, it's AMD can and still has a competition-"nal" offering it sells to consumers.
Here Bench of Mining NIM :
Now with 1 T/b memory , developer predicts around 600 to 800 , some even said they will buy ASAP if it's around 900Kh/s per card.You can go Discord NIM
2019 might look boring for the GPU market, but on the other hand 2019/2020 looks to be the most exciting times for CPUs in a decade or more.
"One UK retailer has over a 100 just from one brand."
Oh look, this completely refutes the statement by the guy (Gibbo) who has said stuff that turned out to be not true in the past also.
Also one baseless source doesn't "refute" the statement made by the UK's largest retailer of specialist PC gaming components, and Gibbo has a pretty amazing track record for accuracy with the stuff he occasionally lets slip.
I just cant.