[Update] Amd Is Trying To Encounter Postulate For Radeon Rx Vega 64

Working amongst partners to restock all SKUs, including the $499 standalone cards.

When AMD's RX Vega 64 launched at the get-go of the week, need far outstripped supply—nothing novel for a hotly anticipated graphics carte launch. Since then, in that place accept been reports that AMD 'killed' the $499 standalone production as well as that all cards volition last sold inward the $599 Black Pack, which includes the Vega 64, a duad of games, a discount on a FreeSync monitor, as well as a discount on a Ryzen CPU + mobo combo. (If you lot don't purpose the discounts at the fourth dimension of purchase, however, they don't bear forward.) HotHardware reached out to AMD for comment on the situation, as well as the response is much equally nosotros expected.
"Radeon RX Vega 64 need continues to move past times expectations. AMD is working closely amongst its partners to address this demand.  Our initial launch quantities included standalone Radeon RX Vega 64 at SEP [Suggested E-tail Price] of $499, Radeon RX Vega 64 Black Packs at SEP of $599, as well as Radeon RX Vega 64 Aqua Packs at SEP of $699. We are working amongst our partners to restock all SKUs of Radeon RX Vega 64 including the standalone cards as well as Gamer Packs over the side past times side few weeks, as well as you lot should expression quantities of Vega to get-go arriving inward the coming days."
I followed upwards amongst a minute contact at AMD, bespeak specifically how much of the retail pricing AMD is actually able to control. Given the Black Pack is just a duad of games inward add-on to the card, amongst potential discounts on other hardware, what's to halt retail outlets similar Newegg as well as Amazon from but adding the game codes / discount to all Vega 64 cards? If a retail outlet tin sell every Vega 64 it tin get, why non sell it amongst the games at $599 rather than equally a standalone carte at $499?
The answer is evidently that nil tin halt them from doing just that. AMD told us, "we're trying to create everything nosotros tin to set Vegas inward gamers hands at SEP, but nosotros don’t accept straight control."
I've been working on additional testing of the RX Vega 64, as well as volition accept a amount scored review upwards soon. The graphics carte is fast as well as ability hungry, as well as users that prefer AMD hardware accept clearly been waiting a long fourth dimension for a novel high-end AMD graphics card. Eventually things volition form themselves out as well as we'll accept standalone Vega 64 cards priced at $499, or fifty-fifty lower, but whether that volition last inward the side past times side calendar week or two, or months inward the future, is impossible to say.

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