AMD rumoured to have less than 5,000 Radeon VII Graphics Cards

I wouldn't be surprised if they launched with around that order of magnitude of these FE style cards with AIBs getting the rest onwards with their designs coming later, maybe more competitively priced(though not a massive jump) with their NVidia variants for cheaper cooler designs given AMD just gives loose msrp's to AIBs and they want to sell the cards too.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if they launched with around that order of magnitude of these FE style cards with AIBs getting the rest onwards with their designs coming later, maybe more competitively priced(though not a massive jump) with their NVidia variants for cheaper cooler designs given AMD just gives loose msrp's to AIBs and they want to sell the cards too.

It may just be a last hurrah tbh.

The rumblings I heard from Taiwan were that they weren't even going to launch this gen.

I also heard rumours they are making about $50 per card.
 
The rumour is from Tweaktown, I've seen the main guy at Tweaktown make up rumours on the spot in his Facebook live streams, He's about as credible as a mouldy turd.
 
The rumour is from Tweaktown, I've seen the main guy at Tweaktown make up rumours on the spot in his Facebook live streams, He's about as credible as a mouldy turd.

For someone who dislikes facebook. You sure are on there alot :D :D

Never trusted anything said from Tweaktown.
 
Whatever the truth in this rumour I think that there is a key word that is being overlooked "cards" not chips or PCB's.
If there is any truth to these claims it could well be that 5k is all they have planned to produce in full cards for release. I don't expect AMD to go to CES and make a big song an dance about a card that will pretty much not exist, I think they are gambling hard on these to sell well and Navi to mop up those on tighter budgets.
I don't expect that they have only produce 5000 chips. This may be a smart move due to the fluctuations we have seen in the market over the last few years, at least from a shareholders perspective.
 
Yeah, personally I feel this is specifically AMD's own cards, given we've only seen it with that large Frontier Edition style cooler and AMD aren't exactly a board manufacturer. I wouldn't be surprised if 5000 is roughly how many Vega64 FE's or 2080 FEs there were on their respective launch days (Is everyone forgetting that Turing got a fully fledged paper launch with actual products not in stores till weeks after supposed launch dates). AIBs are apparently staying silent, to me that implies more of an NDA and a late call to them from AMD than a "We're not doing anything so we're not even going to bother replying" Maybe this is just a swan song halo product but to get half an hour at AMDs only ever CES keynote to date? I doubt it
 
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Fury X was exactly the same, guys. We saw what? three partner cards? for the regular Fury and then tiny amounts of the Fury X. In fact, I never saw more than 9 in stock at any given time on OCUK and that was before mining.

It's the interposer, apparently. It's a complete sod to get right. So many of the cores go in the bin, as if the interposer does not work then they have nowhere else to use that die. It's not like they do a spazzed out version of Vega with half the cores and GDDR. It's basically HBM or bust.
 
TweakTown... sorry, instant 'do not repost' for me. I'm not afraid of an interesting rumour, but TT take the micky.

What bothers me is that Mark even bothered to add to the rumor buy just posting about it. He cited an article that had no source. All hearsay. Anybody can write anything and claim "my contacts in the industry told me so". It's meaningless and usually wrong. Evidenced by the fact that AMD has now corrected them proving it was clickbait.
 
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