Thursday, September 7th 2017
Do Inflated AMD Radeon GPU Prices Have an Official Sanction?
Over the past couple of months, inflation in AMD Radeon GPU prices, in part fueled by silicon shortages, and in part by non-gamers (read: crypto-currency miners) buying up graphics cards, have impacted the AMD Radeon brand in the eyes of its target audience - PC gamers and graphics professionals. It was initially believed that market forces are driving the inflation, and that AMD had little to do with the price inflation. We then uncovered a clue that not just end-users, but even retailers are being sold AMD Radeon graphics cards at prices way above AMD's launch SEP. A Tweet by an official AMD Twitter handle shows that inflated AMD Radeon graphics card prices has the company's official sanction.
"@AMDGaming," a verified Twitter handle held by AMD, which promotes the company's products targeted at gamers, such as AMD Radeon graphics cards, and Ryzen processors; posted a promotion in which an XFX branded Radeon RX 570 graphics card, which is being sold at USD $279, including a free coupon for a "Quake Champions" pack free, was made to appear as if at its price, it's a great deal. The RX 570 was launched at USD $169 for the 4 GB variant, and $199 for the 8 GB variant. The XFX Radeon RX 570 4 GB RS (the card being marketed in the Tweet) was launched at $179. The Tweet was met with angry reactions for how blatantly AMD was marketing price-inflated Radeon graphics cards, without actually doing something about taming the prices.
"@AMDGaming," a verified Twitter handle held by AMD, which promotes the company's products targeted at gamers, such as AMD Radeon graphics cards, and Ryzen processors; posted a promotion in which an XFX branded Radeon RX 570 graphics card, which is being sold at USD $279, including a free coupon for a "Quake Champions" pack free, was made to appear as if at its price, it's a great deal. The RX 570 was launched at USD $169 for the 4 GB variant, and $199 for the 8 GB variant. The XFX Radeon RX 570 4 GB RS (the card being marketed in the Tweet) was launched at $179. The Tweet was met with angry reactions for how blatantly AMD was marketing price-inflated Radeon graphics cards, without actually doing something about taming the prices.
100 Comments on Do Inflated AMD Radeon GPU Prices Have an Official Sanction?
When the price of his ingredients go up hes force to raise the prices or take the hit. He doesn't go to a Farm and complain why the chickens are producing higher cost eggs or why the cows milk is costing him higher cheese prices or does he. That be good reality TV.
I am only saying that an article at Digitimes was posted in the beginning of this month, talking about price increase in Nvidia cards specifically, and it was ignored. We could say that it was ignored because it was looking like a repeat of the article posted in the middle of August in TPU, but considering that in AMD's case it is starting to look like a new mini series of articles around the same theory, I would say that TPU doesn't have a problem posting frequent articles about the same thing, if those articles look to have new or updated information.
So when you read this paragraph, do you see someone posting an opinion with an explanation, or a fact? If you say a fact, then there are three possibilities.
1) My English is
worstworse than I thought.2) You have a problem understanding text.
3) A combination of the above.
Probably it is (1).
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I don't know why the 1080 has risen, but it's not as inflated as the 60/70.
Post 17 started it and there a few more sprinkled throughout the thread. If they use an unverified redditor as a source, wccftech should be The Gospel. :p
It would be the big miners in Asia who had insider info and gobbled them up right away.
The redditor is getting this
What does that do to its ROI??
The real mining crowd has the funds, expertise and time to really get to the bottom, and honestly when the smart ones figured it out they wouldn't be out Exclaiming on YouTub... That's like saying... youall I figured out where the Gold is!
AMD figured it would be out'ed soon enough, why work every green behind the ears miner into a froth on day one.
I also wouldn't doubt that they snatched them up right in Taiwan. I've heard one Chinese person mention this at least (with other cards). And what I know about Asia, it's probably true. Giant capitalist culture, but it still has it's shady, cash-in-hand/bartering roots.
- Amd doesnt WANT to sell lots of Vega and if they DO sell a Vega they don't want to do it at the MSRP, because net loss
- The MSRP is set too low because the performance of the product demanded it
- Mining plays right into their recent GPU failure, its perfect damage control
- Inflated pricing on other cards help recoup expenses made on Vega
Next move will be Navi, which I'm sure will be a new revolutionary product, hopefully RTG's Ryzen otherwise I don't see how they can still be competitive with anything except 1080p. This pricing battle really has little value, look past the horizon, mid to long term, and it looks bleak AF.
But is OK. As history proved over and over again, this will back fire back to them in the end.
Consoles though... that'd be a golden opportunity to tie closer into PC gaming if AMD knew what to do with themselves.
But yea right now mining is a good thing to AMD and their bottom line.
My fear right now is that Navi will be glued together Vega and Polaris through infinity fabric to get back in performance, which honestly sounds like FX all over again on the GPU side. They have an IPC/perf-watt problem to fix here, first I feel.