Gigabyte won't launch custom radeon rx vega 64

Although this may surprise many AMD fans, it seems that Gigabyte has no plans to make a custom Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card, at least for now. For now, the first buyers of the Vega 64 have no other options apart from the reference model or a model customized by other manufacturers.

Right now, some of the manufacturers that have already confirmed their plans to launch custom Radeon RX Vega 64 cards are XFX, Sapphire, and PowerColor, although these manufacturers may not release these cards before November of this year.

Various inconsistencies in Vega 10 design alienate AMD partners

On the other hand, in addition to Gigabyte, AMD also has alliances with Asus and MSI for the manufacture of Radeon graphics cards, but these three companies do not have exclusive agreements with AMD, so they have no obligation to customize the new Vega 64.

However, ASUS already announced last August that it would launch a pair of ROG Strix Vega cards with a custom cooling solution, but these cards will arrive just in mid-October.

Meanwhile, MSI appears to be skipping Vega 64s this time, though the company typically manufactures custom graphics cards with special PCB designs for all high-end GPU platforms. But it seems that he chose to focus on the Vega 64 at the moment.

One of the main reasons why so many manufacturers will stop releasing custom Radeon RX Vega 64 models seems to be the difficulty of setting a standard frequency for factory overclocked cards.

In addition, there are also several inconsistencies regarding the maximum temperatures that can be reached, and lastly there are three different Vega 10 packages, each with slight differences in heights, which although they may seem insignificant, manufacturers cannot standardize a single design. of heat sink to fit all three Vega 10 packs.

Source: Tom's Hardware