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I'll put it another way.

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According to TPU the B580 needs to gain 31% to match that at 1440P, lets say Intel put out some B770 GPU that can, with the B580 already being £300 what makes you think the B770 will be significantly cheaper than £360?

Agreed. B580 is less powerful, software DX9, high CPU usage, not as mature drivers as AMD, not as nice control panel £60 more- that's nothing for the gain in all of that I'd rather have the AMD. Watching this video it's not like it's 10fps difference in every game, it's literally sometimes 50% difference.

 

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Agreed. B580 is less powerful, software DX9, high CPU usage, not as mature drivers as AMD, not as nice control panel £60 more- that's nothing for the gain in all of that I'd rather have the AMD. Watching this video it's not like it's 10fps difference in every game, it's literally sometimes 50% difference.

Yeah, i think TPU 30% on average is right, that's a long way to go to catch up a GPU that's a sub £400 GPU.

Its the same in the US, i just looked on one of the large US store chains and the cheapest available B580 is $370, its been like that since the first batch of the B580 was sold out, every reviewer has these in some form of wording or another as "fantastic and excellent value"

Its not just me saying this some of the Youtubers have picked up on this too, its a form of jibating and Intel are no strangers with this, the price they have always quoted for their CPU's was volume tray pricing and Youtubers have always quoted that as the price never realising this is not the retail price, its present by Intel as the retail price but if you care to search through the mase of small print links you will eventually get to how Intel have always defined this pricing, its no surprise they do the same bait and switch with their GPU pricing because its always worked for them. Its never challenged.

If they do put out an RX 7700 XT competing B770 it will be advertised as $350, the first batch will be $350, all the reviewers will put excellent value badges all of their review pages and as soon as they no longer care the GPU's are $450.

I don't blame Intel, i would do exactly the same. the problem is we have a press that is either complicit or stupid.