Soldato
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Making a card with around 390 performance for around £200 was always going to be an easy target.
AMD do need to build momentum, they will never do it by coming up with cards that are while good in their own right still very mediocre in the wider scheme of things.
They made a card which it has been obvious for a long time was going to compete directly with the 1060 at a similar price and performance.
The fact is AMD need to be thinking a lot bolder than that, to get that momentum they need to be thinking their cards as the obvious choice, significantly greater performance at a lower price.
It feels like they thought "the 970 did well didn't it? lets do that, literally that and stick 8GB on it"
No, the competition does not stand still.
This might be the case in the UK but from what i have seen they have brought out a gtx970 performer that cost $200 compared to $329 for the gtx970. They have essentially brought this performance level down a tier. We need to stop looking at the £ price and eol pricing as a comparison as those Gpu's won't be with us long. The card seems to be selling well and is sold out every where when you look for the top selling brands.
It could have been better for sure but if this is the GPU going into the next Playstation i would prefer it in my system to a gtx1060. In a years time this will be crapping all over a gtx970 with more and more dx12/Vulkan games on the market.
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