Allen
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Radeon VII 16GB HBM 2 memory cost around $320
The marketing guys at AMD did a nice job naming the card Radeon VII (Roman 7) as it is a 7nm, launching on February 7 and costing $699 but our investigation shows that 16GB HBM 2 comes at a hefty price.
Launching a card with 16GB might sound like overkill but it was an engineering rather than a business decision.
$80 x 4 HBM 2 chips, 4GB each
AMD won’t do a gaming GPU based on 7nm Vega [with 16GB] as the card simply cannot make a profit, but from the image point of view, it makes a lot of sense [to put Radeon VII on the market]..
The article indicates that Radeon VII was logical to keep AMD "in the news" (something we've noted). But, the profit is very small. In that limited sense (they are not making a lot of money off the Customer), its not a bad deal. It releases in less than two weeks.
I'll be interested in the independent test results. However, if its only roughly 25 percent faster than what I've got, I wouldn't "see" or "feel" the difference.
