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No it's not, it's here now to perform against the current Turing card that's one level below Nvidia's Turing flagship, the 2080, Last gen's flagship matching that performance doesn't suddenly make AMD's new card obsolete because it offers around the same level of performance, We've all known that Radeons been in a rut for several years and we weren't expecting anything just yet, & what we are expecting is only a Polaris (Navi)replacement.It's a 2.5 year old late to the party Gp102 on a 7nm process, reintroducing the £600-£700 pricepoint again after 2 years.It's not the 64cu, it's die harvesting at a 60Cu. Yeah it may compete with a 2 year old Pascal or a mid range Turing, but it's not going to sell, it won't help matketshare and it's yet another poor execution among the many other failed Amd projects.
Rx590 failed to utilise faster memory, or to incorporate an extra 4cu's. Yet redrawn on the 12nm process it is shockingly bad at power/performance and refreshes the pricepoints up again.
It's not progress it just shows how severe thr Gpu department has been. Once we get through Navi and onto the next Gen then hopefully we might see some progress.
But you cannot deny how poor the gpu department have been over the last few years.
Let not my critiscm confuse you for being anti Amd, i have x2 v64's and rx470/570.
My viewpoint is ''Where's the progress'.
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AMD harvesting cores that didn't make the cut for the pro cards isn't a bad thing, If it compares to an RTX 2080 as we are being told it performs it means we now have a Radeon card that you need to spend a grand or more to beat on Nvidia's side, ie a 2080ti. You can buy 2080's from £650 so as long as the VII doesn't exceed that it's a great alternative.
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