Think we just need to be realistic AMD are in their Computing and Graphics division over the last year, operating income:
2014 Q1: -$3m
2014 Q2: +$9m
2014 Q3: -$17m
2014 Q4: -$56m
2015 Q1: -$75m
Remember, the R200 series launched in Q4 2013... While i know the C&G division isn't not just GPUs, it's been no secret they've struggled in that area.
They made greater losses due to the fabs overall in previous years,and yet they launched multiple new shrinks.
One of the reasons for their losses has been penalty payments due to the WSA with GF,since they agreed to do a certain amount of business over the next few years. This primarily affects their CPU lines,especially when they had to buy a certain amount of chips,or amend the agreement. So it either led to an oversupply of chips or a penalty payment to GF.
All noise indicated they are moving over more and more of their business to GF.
The console SOCs for example are all made at GF IIRC,and having GPUs with them means they can actually meet those obligations I suspect.
I honestly think a lot of people will still be at 1080p, so I reckon that 1080p is definitely an important area.
Out of a few dozen gamers I personally know and have met at LANs,I know NO gamer who has £500+ cards and are still at 1080P.
Zero.Zilch.
Heck,the three people I know with an Oculus Rift are all running GTX970 cards.
Met benchmarkers and people running 2560 and multiple displays who do have SLI/XFire cards or running the high end single GPU cards.
Not at 1080P though.
Its only going to get worse when cheaper G-Sync and Freesync 1080p displays will be out.
AOC already have a 1080p Freesync display for £230 which is being released soon.