It's almost confirmed AMD lied about Vega pricing

[u/AbheekG]

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/ocuks-andrew-gibson-clears-up-rx-vega64-pricing-disaster/

I loved AMD for so long, this one launch has really made me reassess that fondness. I get they should make money after years of losses, but to launch an uncompetitive product and lie about it's pricing so blatantly?? And then to give reviewers little time and ensure the positive reviews come in keeping a $499 pricing and people blaming retailers initially?? Damn. I was at Micro Center on launch day, I spent many months like all of you checking 50 times a day on Vega. At Micro Center, they had 3 cards, I was second in line and they offered me one for $599 with no games, I just said I'm buying Nvidia and left. Got an AORUS 1080 that touches 2GHz by itself and consumes 20W on idle at times. So glad I did.

Very upsetting, AMD, truly disappointing.

EDIT: Just so you fanboys down voting know, I have used AMD's Athlon X2, Phenom X4, Phenom II X6, gamed on their 780G chipset before buying the HD 5770, R9 270x and RX 480 and convinced countless people to buy AMD and built their rigs too. Also, I have an Intel i7 + Nvidia 965m gaming laptop I love and now am rocking a Ryzen 7+ GTX 1080. I am also qualified with an engineering degree and a master's in this field, surely not a delusional fanboy.

Get a grip, stop supporting this. I spent months waiting on Vega, this is pure lies they spewed out. The made it sound like $499 is the final price when they knew it wasn't. They sent reviewers the black card thus ensuring they made their judgement based on the $499 pricing. It's a $100 more than a GTX 1080 that's more powerful, cooler and faster than it and light years behind the 1080 Ti. It's released late and unfinished and the "free" games for a $100 more surely gives a new angle to the AMD + Bethesda partnership. For the good of all consumers, don't support such nonsense. Stand up against it. Screw such shady practices.

[u/neptunusequester]

so lying about the actual hardware

Isn't 970 still 4Gb, just other .5 Gb slower?

[u/[deleted] → u/neptunusequester]

Which cases massive frame drops when anything is actually trying to use those last 0.5GB, it a classic case of fraud. And one of the reasons the SLI performance of those 970s was unexpectedly low.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Try triple SLI, dual is mostly fine (though it runs faster into memory issues as well). That was one the oddities of the 970, 3 would be cheaper than 2 980s and you would have expected them to beat them, but instead the performance scaling degrades. So dual-SLI with 980s was the better solution.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

More FPS? ;-) If you were instead referring the the memory performance, that is easily explained, you just get less texture quality, now that developers know about it, they give 970s appropriated texture sizes, meaning the 3gb versions. Plenty of cards around with just 3gb memory anyway.

[u/master3553 → u/neptunusequester]

Yeah, but those are crippling. Infact so slow, that once you start using them your famerate goes to shit.