Anyway, my point was AMd has always priced matched Nvidia since the FuryX and I didn't see that pattern changing.
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