Vega Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/28616...-ti-launch

AMD has temporarily slashed the price of its Vega 56 — or at least one Vega 56 model — ahead of Nvidia’s next mainstream GPU launches, cutting the GPU down to $280. The new move could bring the older card back into competition in terms of overall performance, though it also puts sharp pressure on AMD’s recently-released RX 590.
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Vega 64 prices have actually increased — the GPU is currently $500 — but the Vega 56 has dropped to $280, at least in theory. We say “in theory,” because the cheapest GPU at Newegg is currently a $400 card listed as being on sale, and the specific link that AMD sent us to the GPU that’s supposed to be cheaper has the card on Auto Notify as of this writing.

We’re not going to speculate much on how Vega 56 will perform in this position because we haven’t seen how the 1660 Ti will fare. Presumably AMD picked a price point that the GPU could actually compete at to start with. What’s less clear is what impact this will have on the RX 590. A price cut to that GPU — say, down to $230 or so — would position it much more effectively against both the Vega 56 and the older RX 580.