Nope the same power draw shenanigans were applied to the 480/580 vs 1060. Despite the Polaris cards having slightly more performance, reviewers/fanboys made a huge deal out of, what, 30-40W extra power and claimed this was a deal breaker. Don't pretend it didn't happen.
And it's not so much the power draw - performance, it's the heat and resulting cooling noise required to cool that is an issue for me. So if the 2080 Ti is a hot and power hungry beast, that needn't be downplayed just because the performance is there.
again.... if the RTX2080Ti is only *slightly* more powerful than an equivalent AMD card you will be right, but from what it looks like AMD are not even in this race to potentially come second!. there is no apples to apples here, if we were talking a Vega 64 vs a 1080 then *maybe* you have a case.
but what card is the RTX 2080Ti only slightly faster than from AMD but using loads more power that reviewers are meant to recommend due to being more efficient per performance per watt?
Now, IF you are talking 1080ti vs 2080 (vanilla) then ... maybe, but even then it is going to be complicated because the RTX 2080 offers different features which do not exist on other cards....... so i am sure in software which do not use those features the 1080ti may come out looking good against the 2080....
but what about if a game uses DLSS or RTX?
also, (and i am guessing here and could be wrong) but what if when rtx / DLSS is not used the card uses wildly less power than when they are? in that case it would totally be disingenuous to compare absolute max power draw of the 2080 vs the 1080ti IF when the extra features are not in use the card actually uses less power.
hell i am defending NV here and am not even a fan of them if i am honest... they are a means to an end nothing more in my view.