AMD Radeon RX Vega is expensive to build, and AMD can’t lose money as a market brand company. The fact that the launch of the cards was a marketing mistake didn’t also help either for this particular GPU getting into the gaming market, a year later and expensive.
This is one of those cases where things look great on paper, but real life shows that it is not optimized. This makes Vega feels more like a transition built, rather than an optimized series to keep up with market rivals.
HBM 2 is 3 times more expensive than GDDR 5. With more performance, seems AMD had to use HBM to keep the Vega architecture up to date. This new memory controller setup will not allow the swapping for GDDR. Vega is using HBM for all graphics cards that might come in the future.
https://www.lonelydarkworld.com/amd-radeon-rx-vega-beyond-gaming/
This is one of those cases where things look great on paper, but real life shows that it is not optimized. This makes Vega feels more like a transition built, rather than an optimized series to keep up with market rivals.
HBM 2 is 3 times more expensive than GDDR 5. With more performance, seems AMD had to use HBM to keep the Vega architecture up to date. This new memory controller setup will not allow the swapping for GDDR. Vega is using HBM for all graphics cards that might come in the future.
https://www.lonelydarkworld.com/amd-radeon-rx-vega-beyond-gaming/
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