AMD should just run their own mining rig at this point. Create a large multisocket board and plug all those GPUs in for a week of 'burn in' mining coins before shipping them out.

You think they don't?

AMD are actually selling a portion of the GPU stock in bundles so that they don't all get snapped up by miners.

But will it work, or will miners gladly pay the extra $100? AMD would love that -- miners won't redeem the games or the discounts, so that extra $100 is pure profit.

Is that how those bundles work? AMD only pays when the game gets activated/redeemed? I always thought they just buy a bunch of game licenses and pay upfront.

Miners might want to sell the games/discounts to recoup their losses. After all, if you get a $50 discount on a $200 monitor then you can just re-sell it new for $200 and get your money back.

Which is US only. The only reason to buy was the bundle, which is a good deal. Same performance as 1080 at the same price with double the TDP and will have limited stock. There is no reason to buy Vega as a gamer.

AFAICT the vega "Frontier" card which has been out for a little while (at a very high price) has a similar mining output to a 1080Ti

The Vega frontier board is clocked faster than the Vega 64s and has twice as much RAM, and RAM bandwidth.

I'm going to take a guess that these are going to be slightly less attractive to miners than the Nvidia 1070. Wouldn't like to put money on it though.

--edit-- Power consumption on these will be the deciding factor, possibly. Nvidia seem to have a far better handle on that lately.

They do spend a bit of the article explaining AMDs new bundling deal that looks to be explicitly anti-miner.

Slide deck mentions cryptocurrency specific instructions.

Unlikely considering 275W+ TDP

Yes please, so 1080ti cards get their prices down to normal and I can buy one.

Vote me down, but Amazon.de increased prices by 30% due to Ethereum miners demand to > $1050.

That may be, but currently it is at 760€, and a bit cheaper for worse models. https://www.amazon.de/GIGABYTE-GeForce-1080TI-Gaming-GDDR5X/... as example.

That card had a 650€ price mid-June before miners bought up everything, but yes 760€ is already down from the 820€ peak.