I have just been onto the US version of Newegg, i see a small number of 2080s in there at 699 so the same as the new V2.
However most seem to be considerably more, ok these may be OC'd cards ect. fair enough but 750 and 800 are price points that look scary for a 2080..
Now the point about how Amd are just achieving speeds that nvidia did 2 years back is also complete gibberish, as lets face it the rather expensive 2080 is also just hitting that same speeds and so its failed to progress if you use that logic as well.
The 2070 only roughly meeting 1080 performance is also quite embarrassing if we look at it like that, the 2060 is now facing off against V56/64 performance and those were released ages ago... so er... thats not to good either.
So while its fair to say AMD have failed to progress quickly, well neither has Nvidia.. unless you count the fantastically massively powerful 2080ti... which is a huge what?? 25% quicker than the 2 year old 1080ti... wow thats shockingly good progress there.. especially as its sooooo cheep to buy that extra 25% or so. As for the new Titan, i dont think sarcasm is worth it for it, its just an idiots card for idiots.
ok the 2080 gives us those killer features raytracing and DLSS but i can get my 1080ti to do that, i just lower the res to 1080p .. there you go instant DLSS...and as for the ray tracing part my pascal card is happy to do that party piece as well, i just need to remove 400Mhz off its boost clock and bingo... instant RTX on!
FFS you lot.. a 2080 competitor for similar money is not particularly exciting but it is needed, who knows it may end up being slightly faster and slightly cheeper on launch... and if it overclocks like v56 (which really is great) then heck it could be a better card than the cut down cut down Turing thingy.