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First it was unveiled, now it has launched. AMD has launched the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition at $999 for the air-cooled version and $1499 for liquid-cooled. The High Bandwidth Memory 2.0 included has been confirmed to be two stacks of 8-layer 8 GB HBM:
After what appears to be a very unusual false start, AMD has now formally launched their new Radeon Vega Frontier Edition card. First announced back in mid-May, the unusual card, which AMD is all but going out of their way to dissuade their usual consumer base from buying, will be available today for $999. Meanwhile its liquid cooled counterpart, which was also announced at the time, will be available later on in Q3 for $1499.
Interestingly, both of these official prices are some $200-$300 below the prices first listed by SabrePC two weeks ago in the false start. To date AMD hasn't commented on what happened there, however it's worth noting that SabrePC is as of press time still listing the cards for their previous prices, with both cards reporting as being in-stock.
[...] Feeding the GPU is AMD's previously announced dual stack HBM2 configuration, which is now confirmed to be a pair of 8 layer, 8GB "8-Hi" stacks. AMD has the Vega FE's memory clocked at just under 1.9Gbps, which gives the card a total memory bandwidth of 483GB/sec. And for anyone paying close attention to AMD's naming scheme here, they are officially calling this "HBC" memory – a callback to Vega's High Bandwidth Cache design.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday June 28 2017, @05:21PM (2 children)
The first link says AMD had a false start. If a 3rd party distributor picks a random price and says its in stock that has little to do with AMD's official launch. They also say the liquid cooled version will be available in Q3? It is available for pre-order on newegg right now with release in 7 days (5 Jul). https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814105074 [newegg.com]
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday June 28 2017, @05:28PM (1 child)
What's the actual difference between a "false start" and the usual paper launches?
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday June 28 2017, @08:28PM
If AMD said they officially launched the card except there was only a couple thousand available then that would be paper. I don't think anyone has said how much stock they have and what the demand is yet. So we don't know what availability will be. The crypto mining madness has snapped up all the mid-range cards at normal prices.
You could certainly argue the Frontier Edition is a paper launch for Vega as a whole. A false start would be AMD selling cards before officially launching them. Or in this case a distributor. But that's a false start against the distributor, not AMD. But it might not matter because as far as i can tell SaberPC was doing pre-orders that shipped yesterday(today?).
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