Amd vega could arrive with a very limited stock

Rumors suggest that AMD will only have 16, 000 Vega GPUs at its disposal for the launch of the new high-performance graphics architecture, a situation that would be very similar to what we experienced in its day with the arrival of the Fiji core.

AMD will have a very limited stock of Vega

It has been Tweaktown who has obtained the information that the launch of AMD Vega will be very limited with very little initial stock. Tweaktown was also the medium that announced in 2015 that Sunnyvale's would only have 30, 000 Fiji-based cards, then the shortage of Fiji cores was confirmed.

Vega and Fiji have something very important in common, both architectures make use of a very new memory technology such as HBM2 and HBM respectively, the availability of HBM2 memory is very low so it will be the limitation when putting in the market the new Vega based cards.

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We repeat that AMD has played a lot by betting on HBM2 memory instead of the GDDR5X that Nvidia is using in its higher-end cards, the new stacked memory has had a long development and its availability is very reduced, it It has forced AMD to delay the launch of Vega and now we know it will do so with very limited stock.

On the other hand, the difference in performance between the two memories will not be very large, so there are certainly many more drawbacks than advantages in choosing HBM2. Recall that the GeForce GTX 980 Ti was able to beat the Radeon R9 Fury X despite using much more modest memory.

Source: overclock3d