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haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

Well, I'm not jumping on the hype wagon yet with all these rumors. As I said, it's too good to be true.

That said, I was at HardOCP checking the discussion of this video, that is from AdoredTV (Wccftech only reports it), and Kyle Bennett stepped in to comment: "There is a whole lot of reality in that video. A lot. There is a little wrong, but not a lot."

That makes me thing that either he's trolling the members of his own site, or that there's more true than we are willing to accept.

AMD would crank up the prices if they had anything very good in hand. They aren't more than doubling the performance-per-price value of the Polaris / Vega cards from one year to the other, it's too agressive for a company who needs money for R&D etc. so badly to compete.

Compare Ryzen retailing for $500 versus the meek FX for no more than $200, or Vega coming for a mere $500 - $700, way lower than the top GeForce cards, when it's implied the design is quite troublesome to manufacture.

That would be my two cents at least.

I certainly don't disagree with you that pricing seems too low to believe it, but it could be the one of the things that are "a little wrong" (with the other one being frequencies for the CPUs). Those prices could very well be the cost of the chip to AIB partners, for example.

But we also have to keep in mind that AMD not only needs profits, but also needs to grow its marketshare to stay relevant and prevent more propietary tech from Nvidia like the new Ray Tracing stuff, so it's not hard to believe that AMD will happily trade some profit for extra marketshare, specially if those are mainstream, not high end, products.