*Warning*- the price war is about to start- whatever you do, do *not* buy any GPU in the next few weeks. Please wait for AMD and Nvidia to knowk seven hells out of one another. (I'm assuming the WCCFTech leak is true- and of late their leaks have been on the nose)
AMD's price announcement of the 5700 and 5700XT was one of the biggest mistakes in its corporate history- I called the prices "obscene" in an earlier post when brain dead AMD fans were telling you all the obscene price was just "fine"- be very careful who you believe (and remeber I love AMD stuff- but that doesn't make me an AMD lick-spittle).
AMD is currently busy licking the backside of Sony and MS (where AMD makes "cost plus"- in other words so little profit Nvidia and Intel long ago gave up bothering with consoles- tho now only AMD has the tech anyway).
But whatever- AMD isn't focused on giving PC gamers the best they can *yet* (and who likes to wait- I sure the hell do not).
Dribblers have been telling you for *years* why such and such performance *has* to be a such an obscene price- and they were always *wrong*. The prices were *artificial*- simply a function of what Nvidia thought it could get away with, and Nvidia, with Turing, has milked the cow far too hard.
In other words, Nvidia saturated its customer base, and killed the idea of casual and semi-casual GPU upgrades. I rock a 470 because I have never gone into this hobby prepared to pay thru the nose, and always look for best value per unit spend. But VR means I wanna upgrade- to around 1080TI performance, But eff the current prices for that level. They are off by a factor of more than *two* in histroic terms, thanks to weak competition from AMD (now ending).
So Turing isn't popular, isn't selling, and AMD is coming, but not yet. What does Nvidia do? The only thing it can do- cannibalise its future 7nm by giving us now what AMD isn't on its 7nm.
AMD has another chip to annonce, but delayed cos its Polaris parts are already killer in that segment (570 down at 120 dollars and killing it at 1080).
Worse, AMD has the vile Vega sitting at 250 dollars with the Vega 56 (a good price here, but too low a performance for me, and utterly dreadful tech to boot- especially the dreadful stack memory). The Navi 5700 (infinitely cheaper to make that the sh-t HBM vega garbage, and great tech to boot) was priced *above* vega- and you cannot get dumber than that. So Nvidia seems to have thought "eff it, we're going for the long term kill- ruin AMD 7nm before it even gets traction" knowing that AMD is kowtowing to Sony and MS, and indends to screw over its PC gaming customers til the new consoles hit).
Look guys, a company like AMD cannot serve two masters. It's either serving PC gamers, or serving the two console giants. So AMD just handed over the win to Zen2 + Nvidia 'super'.
PS yes AMD will, humiliatingly, collapse the price of the 5700 *before* launch if Nvidia super marketing hits in the meantime.
PPS *stop* trying to justify the high GPU prices, you fanboy dribblers. You are like the morons who justified Intel's effing awful 4-core i7 prices before Zen(1) hit.