man when will there be significant inventory of Vega's. I have 4 lonely PCIE slots on my new build
I do not want to pay more than 450 for a 56, but who knows.
You will need to buy secondhand, theres been a rise in DDR pricing and memory in general is not cheap. HBM hasnt seen enough sales for it to come down from mass production advantages, it might in time but I dont see this anytime around new year.
Vega was always slightly iffy in terms of up front cost vs profitability, maybe just go the 580 route especially if there is more bargains. They are still making Rx580 but the Vega produciton by AMD is ceased now, they make Vega chips and there will be 3rd party cards but I dont know about a super basic cheap version that people might be looking for.
I agree the Vega 56 and Vega 64 should be about 400 to 450 and 500 to 550 for simple air cooling. Next summer will be Nvidia Volta which puts (more) pressure onto Vega to compete, I guess a cheaper solution will be possible then.
The reason Vega costs more now maybe apart from specialist parts is that its tied to Freesync monitors, general consumers will buy AMD products to pair up with this technology. Generally AMD is not over producing, they are selling Vega to Apple also and chip production for a new Xbox is under way recently as well, I dont see any spare capacity to produce apparent especially.
