Do Inflated AMD Radeon GPU Prices Have an Official Sanction?

[Vayra86]

I'd say this tis true, AMD is probably just getting a minimal profit in Vega and can't sell (at least until HMB2 prices improve) anywhere below the MSRP at least until HMB2 prices improve. They can't go to "war" they have limited manufacturing pipe, so mining is doing them a big favor! If they can sell all their wafer starts they initially committed to GloFo while can hopefully get out till they finally see better price on HBM2. Then they have a chance to perhaps renegotiate with the interposer packager on larger volume (if they show the Vega 11 which is said to use) will also have bigger volume in interposer packaging.

But yea right now mining is a good thing to AMD and their bottom line.

Honestly Navi and Vega are of much less importance than AMD streamlining its GCN much much more, it needs modular approach like Nvidia's, and it needs flexible gpu boost features + power management. They cant keep staying behind with clockspeed as well, because Nvidia can extract much more performance out of a shader and a mm2 of silicon.

My fear right now is that Navi will be glued together Vega and Polaris through infinity fabric to get back in performance, which honestly sounds like FX all over again on the GPU side. They have an IPC/perf-watt problem to fix here, first I feel.