Part of the problem is that Vega GPUs are too good for crypto currency mining. Example: I bought a 16GB Radeon VII for €550 (including 19% VAT). That would be

Part of the problem is that Vega GPUs are too good for crypto currency mining. Example: I bought a 16GB Radeon VII for €550 (including 19% VAT). That would be a decent value proposition for Deep Learning even today. However, the card appears to trade second hand(!) for €1300+ on e-bay, because you apparently can run 90-100 MH/sec or so (this is an estimate I found on the web, I don't engage in this type of thing). As a result, you would not be able to get consumer Vega with these performance characteristics for a good price even if AMD produced them.