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So just how are AMD going to shoot themselves in the foot with the NAVI launch?
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Soldato
Well it's $449 so you were $50 out
And I'd still dispute the price is this high purely because 7nm is expensive.
Well it's $449 so you were $50 out
And I'd still dispute the price is this high purely because 7nm is expensive.
It is probably not only the cost of 7nm, but that does set a lower bound. Anyway, my point was AMd has always priced matched Nvidia since the FuryX and I didn't see that pattern changing.
And it is not only at the high end, look at the 480 vs 1060, 590 vs 1660. etc. AMD does sometimes have some standout GPUs like the 570 and Vega 56 after that was heavily discounted
Soldato
True, true. I wasn't expecting AMD to sell this stuff for pennies but I also wasn't expecting full-on price parity.
I thought (or at least hoped) that the Ryzen mentality would carry over and Radeon would ride the wave of momentum and throw some disruptive shots into the gaming card space. They really haven't. Hell, I'd go as far as saying they've inadvertently embarrassed themselves.
It's clear that AMD is still 2 separate companies and Lisa Su's steady hand and attitude still hasn't permeated down into the graphics division. But then I have said for a while that Navi feels like a reset project to usher out the old and unify AMD under a single vision and direction.
Still, these 2 cards are only using about 60% of the traditional number of stream processors, which bodes well for some properly fast cards further up the stack. I'll just get my lamentations of pricing in early