January 16, 2019 This story has been updated with AMD’s statement on stock rumours surrounding Radeon VII

Reports suggest AMD will be offering only reference design Radeon VII graphics cards at launch and that numbers may be limited. Board partners have tacitly implied that they will not be offering third-party designs at launch, or maybe ever, and that the quantity of Radeon VII is “strictly limited.”

However, AMD has now come out and countered the rumours. At least partially, anyways. “While we don’t report on production numbers externally,’ the statement reads, “we will have products available via AIB partners and AMD.com at launch of Feb. 7, and we expect Radeon VII supply to meet demand from gamers.”

AMD announced Radeon VII over at CES this year. Essentially it’s roughly a Vega gaming GPU shrunk down to the 7nm process node and sprinkled lovingly with 16GB of HBM2 memory. The extra efficiency of the new dense process node allows for greater efficiency and higher clockspeeds, and from somewhere AMD has squeezed Nvidia RTX 2080-level performance despite being a few cores shy of the original Vega 64.