High power consumption of AMD Vega caused by shift of power gurus to EPYC?

Industry sources told FUD Zilla the details of why AMD's Vega GPU has such a high power consumption. The performance/Watt is one of the many things about Vega that baffled everyone in a negative way. Basically, FUD Zilla heard this was partly caused by a decision to pull power optimization engineers from the Vega team in order to optimize the EPYC server chip.

Of course, there's no way to verify this, but it's an interesting tale. FUD Zilla heard that AMD's management saw much greater value in EPYC than in Vega, as a return to competitiveness in the server market was seen as a priority to safeguard AMD's future:

Taking key talents from GPU and moving them to the server business meant that EPYC has some impressive power to performance ratios but at the same time Vega didn’t. Our well informed sources didn’t want to reveal the names but there are not that many power optimization magicians working in these chip companies, it comes down to a few people. A great leader with a decent team can do a great job.

The result is that Vega ended up with high thermals and failed to hit its performance targets, because the Radeon Technologies Group did not have the resources it needed to make the GPU more competitive.