OCUK's Gibbo Claims that the UK has been allocated "less than 100" Radeon VII GPUs

[spolsh]

Wouldn't be at all surprised if he's right and only 100 or so have been allocated, of course, there's nothing to say that in a week or two's time there won't be a load more land on these shores.

 

[AlienALX]

It depends on whether AMD are serious or if it was a token gesture because Navi is late. Look at the Pro Duo? Was it? That was a token gesture.

AMD need to look relevant even when they're not. They still need to look like they can wee with the big boys even if their bladder is empty.

 

[grec]

Yeah Gibbo's made it clear this is the first wave & there's more coming. To be fair though, Turing had complete paper launches too, the RTX2070 "launched" about 3 weeks before it was in any stores.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Yeah Gibbo's made it clear this is the first wave & there's more coming. To be fair though, Turing had complete paper launches too, the RTX2070 "launched" about 3 weeks before it was in any stores.

Review launches are fairly normal. AMD normally do it to drive pre-orders before reviews are even allowed to go live.

 

[grec]

As far as I'm aware there are no pre-orders for Radeon VII though are there? I thought they go live in sync with the review NDA dropping. Though I think anyone who buys before reviews go live are probably just buying to resell at a higher price, that seems to be where much of the launch day rush has led to in the past.

If this is the actual Radeon VII stock I fully expect a few people to snap a bunch up & relist them on eBay or whatever.

 

[Eddie long]

I thought they said at the beginning that only had something like 5000 cores avaible. If that's true then the allocation may make sense

 

[grec]

The claims that they had 5000 or were making a loss were rumours dismissed by AMD, but given this is the first 7nm product with buckets of HBM I don't think anyones expecting there to be a steady or cheap supply anytime soon so there's probably a good amount of truth in the rumours. Though of course, this die has been in shipping enterprise products since around November and this is the cut down version of the die, with the 64CU version of Vega20 being enterprise only (so far), so it's not like it's a rush from the assembly line or anything like that, just classic old yield issues presumably, those interposers are easy to f* up.

 

[AlienALX]

those interposers are easy to f* up.

That's why every reviewer got a core lmao. They were probably destined for the bin.