Re:Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
by broknbottle on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:34AM
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The Vega cards (56 and 64) were definitely priced competitively as NVidia felt the need to release the 1070 Ti out of nowhere. It sits in a weird price / performance area smack dab between the 1070 and 1080 cards. In addition, the Vega architecture is pretty efficient and your statement about being power hungry and very hot is false.
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Re:Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
by Nursie on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:22PM
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Perhaps they were when on their discounted launch price, but they quickly jumped up in price (around £100 in a week, even more a few weeks later) and just weren't available for quite some time AFAICT.
> In addition, the Vega architecture is pretty efficient and your statement about being power hungry and very hot is false.
Excuse me, but I speak from personal experience here. It's really not very efficient, I bought a 64 on launch day. It was hot, noisy and power hungry compared to nVidia cards at similar performance levels, which is the main reason I didn't keep it for long.