AMD Clarify Price Drop Situation
Just one day before the Nvidia 1660 Ti graphics card was released, AMD decided to cut the price of many of their most recent graphics cards including the Vega 56. The cuts provided were quite significant and at the time many perceived the move as a rather cynical attempt by Team Red to try and make their range seem competitive in comparison.
In a report via DSOGaming, however, AMD has issued a statement to clarify the situation surrounding these cuts. Put simply, it’s a sale. Not a permanent drop!
Promotion – Not A Price Drop!
AMD has said: “Radeon RX Vega 56 has been heavily promoted since the holidays and into the new year as partners have been eager to make RX Vega 56 and its forward-looking 8GB of HBM2 available for more gamers. To clarify. The current Radeon RX Vega 56 promotion is not a price drop. Additionally, the RX Vega 56 graphics card will continue to be offered as part of AMD’s Raise the Game: Fully Loaded bundle with three of this year’s blockbuster titles.”
What Do We Think?
Having conducted an extensive review of the Nvidia 1660 Ti (which you can read here) while this might just be a ‘promotion’ off AMD, it’s pretty clear that they were taking aim at this card. In fairness, the results provided by our testing does show that the Vega 56 has quite a significant performance advantage over the 1660 Ti. Not huge, but enough to make a difference. With this cut, however, it simply costs less and performs betters.
Yes, the Vega 56 clearly isn’t as new, nor indeed does it carry as many ‘modern’ features. On the whole, however, for just circa $250, it is definitely a bargain. Particularly when you consider the games that get bundled with it for free. As much as we like the Nvidia 1660 Ti, this (on the whole) just seems to be the better deal.
So, while it was a cynical move by AMD, it should work!
What do you think? Which graphics card would you rather buy? – Let us know in the comments!
AMD and Nvidea work together in this business but dont buy the overpriced nvidea stuff
Give me a three-fan Vega 56 at the same price as a 1660Ti or go home, AMD.
How is it a ‘cynical’ move? I’m struggling to see how a price drop clto make a product more competitive is cynical? Wrong use of the word cynical mate. Bad journalism.
Not understanding it doesn’t make it wrong.
If this had happened a week ago I would’ve gotten a Vega 56. Still, I’m happy with the ASRock RX 590 8GB card I got last week.
Nice move AMD. It’sgood for us also cuz we get better perf for less 💲
I’d rather buy the next generation, hopefully with improved power usage and AV1 hardware video decode. Electricity isn’t free, and noise is a thing too, but I also want to support AMD’s open-source driver support. So I can wait. If the earlier issues were not a concern I night buy the Vega 56.
Seems decent but had my fingers burnt by a rx 590 nitro, to make this card stable it had to be set 200mhz lower than it’s clock speed it came with. Games failed to load etc….
It was a good price at the time with issues I hope this card isn’t the same and sellers don’t take advantage of this, which sadly they do.
I’d like to see this product as is on the shelf and no overclock versions.
Over the last few years I’ve moved to the red team but with silly issues on bolth grafix and cpu.
I will always go for amd when is about graphic cards,I am not an nvidia hater but when is about graphic performance AMD leads easily💪💪