I couldn't help but speculate, while watching AMD's presentation last night, that with the revival of the "XT" branding on their new graphics cards, that they also have a "Pro" model waiting in the background. Maybe they have too much stock of Radeon VII cards and they need them to sell down first. It just seems too obvious to me that if your are going back to ATI naming conventions, that there should also be Pro models. The Navi chips are so small, whats the likelihood of them putting two on one PCB?
There is supposedly a Navi 20 card coming in 2020. Maybe it's two Navi 10s. I was hoping for an XTX version that could melt steel beams but I guess we got the 50th anniversary version instead.
nVidia will drop their prices in response to the Navi cards, which will result in AMD then dropping their prices. In other words, the prices being shown are not the real prices. These are my predictions: RX 5700 XT = $379 to $399 price range RX 5700 = $299-$329 price range I think you may see a lot of people buying 2060s and vanilla 5700s once the prices come down. I would like to upgrade my 1070 at some point, but I don't want to reward nVidia for their horrible ripoff RTX pricing, so I might pick up a 5700XT if I can get one for a reasonable price.
Nope. It will go down like I said it would. Nvidia will announce super "Ti" version for the 2060, 2070, and 2080 next week. They will keep the exact same price structure in place and beat AMD at every price point by about 5% to 10%. My understandings is that AMD's GPUs are cheaper to make so they can eventually cut prices but probably not on day one. It's still seems like a slap in the faces to consumers. These "Super" GPUs are probably what we should have seen last year. These are the rumored specs. https://www.theinquirer.net/inquire...cards-set-to-lay-some-rtx-smackdown-amds-navi
A recently leaked Intel memo seems like a pretty honest assessment of the situation. It's a long but interesting read. The fact that they released it says something too. “AMD competitive profile: Where we go toe-to-toe, why they are resurgent, which chips of ours beat theirs,” Intel believe they still win the lightly threaded work load and gaming benchmarks. AMD will win multi-threaded workloads and their pricing will be significantly lower than Intel. However, there are rumors of a 10 to 15% price cut on all Intel processors before the Ryzen 3000 launch. This may true but it's mostly because every argument about why Intel is better than AMD started and ended with their high end flagship CPUs. Everything else lacked hyper-threading and cores. This is amusing since Intel had no complaints about Cinebench until they started loosing at it. The question is, do any benchmarks really represent real world performance? Even AMD tries to make the claim that game benchmarks don't represent real world use. To some degree they are correct. A majority of gamers still use a 970 or 1060 and a 60Hz monitor. They'll never game at 1080p with a 2080Ti on a 240Hz monitor. https://www.techpowerup.com/256842/...that-even-intel-is-impressed-by-amds-progress
lol just looked at this thread again and we were both sort of right and sort of wrong about the video cards this time. I correctly predicted Navi pricing. You predicted the Super cards.
The current Ryzen prices are tempting me into upgrading to a 3600. I don't need it but I'm bored and want to mess with my build. It seems like a pretty good time to build a new system especially if COVID-19 causes supply shortages. I paid $140 for 16GB of memory in 2017. Now, 16GB is just $70. A 3600 can be had for $160 and a motherboard for $100. GPU prices are still on the high side but New Egg has 5700XTs for $400 and 2060 Super for $420. A person could probably build a great gaming machine for $850. Of course Intel, Nvidia, and AMD will probably be unleashing a whole new line of GPUs and CPUs in October.