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Hi

Why is wootware asking R15 000 for the vega 64 if its only $499 ?
 
Flame said:
Hi

Why is wootware asking R15 000 for the vega 64 if its only $499 ?
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Supply/Demand

Likely added costs of importing it from the US/EU (transport + tax) + early bird premium
 
Nobody should by. They taking the piss since this gpu mining took off
 
I'm going to guess the person that listed the new stock made a mistake by either adding the wrong price or by prematurely posting the items to the store front before they had the actual pricing.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Prices are up on Rebeltech now.

Range from R10 500 (Vega 56 Air) to R15 000 (Vega 64 Water).

Unless these prices come down significantly in the near future my next card will be an Nvidia one.

https://www.rebeltech.co.za/381-amd-vega
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Ridiculous and utterly disappointing. Wonder if those prices will ever come down. If V56 is supposed to compete with 1070 then it's absolutely no comparison.

Guess I'm sticking to my 290 for a while yet.
 
ponder said:
You can buy a 1080 for the price of a Vega 56, you ust be a die hard fan to go for the amd.
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I almost pulled the trigger on a 1080 the other day, for R8600 off Amazon. I however convinced myself in the nick of time that I really don't need it right now :D
 
Actual conversation with a friend:

Me: so Vega 56 and 64 pricing came out today on Rebeltech
Me: aaaand it's pretty bad
Friend: The price?
Me: R10.5k for Vega 56 :/
Friend: LOL WHAT
Friend: LOL NO
Me: yeah...
Friend: Hahahhahaha
Friend: GG amd

His response is perfect. This is from two guys who are generally AMD-leaning :D

Edit: 420 posts ayyy
 
And it's not even that much of a great card either. Performance is pretty decent: 64 neck-and-neck with the 1080, same with the 56 and 1070, but the AMD cards use a lot more power (starting to think I've seen this somewhere before).

Added to that how AMD ****ed up the pricing with their MSRP only being for a limited number of cards - which is why the prices seem a bit outlandish. Resellers will effectively break even if they stick to the prices because it's pretty much what they have to pay for the cards now.

Ryzen is my CPU of choice, but I'll stick to nVidia for the pixels.
 
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It's not really competing.
 
If the pricing was lower, it'd be a decent alternative. But compared to the overseas pricing, it's at least doubled from what AMD set the SEP to be, AND we missed the introductory launch pricing window.

Add to the fact that less than a hundred cards are coming into the country. This isn't going to sell well at all.
 
I'm going to wait a while for third party cards to come out. Will be interesting to see whether the pricing changes.

Also, AMD's driver revisions should improve performance, just not sure how much.
 
Ho3n3r said:
Adjust your price to about $900-$1000 after import costs and duties, and then add local supplier profit, and/or high demand.
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It was also never sold 500 dollars on any store.

Think Newegg had one brand for 500 dollars and the rest for 600 dollars.

I got one from amazon for 600 usd, should be here in week or so.
 
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