Much has been said and spoken about AMD’s upcoming consumer release of Radeon RX Vega. The latest news now is that it might take a couple of more months before we see the actual product in stores.
The latest news is based up-on a reddit spot (and just that). Apparently Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD has stated in a JP Morgan conference that and I quote “RX Vega to be launched a “couple months” after Vega FE”. Now, the transcript of that conference is not yet available to the public, hence I cannot verify and factually check that statement myself.
But considering the VEGA FE is available late June, we might assume (if this is correct and true) that the consumer version of Vega will be available not earlier than August or September, maybe July at best. If true this is a big blow in the faces of the AMD Radeon PC gaming community as pretty much everybody is expecting that the long wait would be over after the pending Computex announcements.
AMD to date has not explained as they the delays keep piling up, we can only assume that there are issues with getting proper volume HBM2 memory. Hence the expensive business cards get priority, as the margin on such cards is much higher than the consumer-end products.
Thanks go out to to Denial from our forums for spotting this one.
AMD’s senior marketing director Chris Hook last week tweeted a photo showing the actual card in their Markham, Ontario labs.
