I'm just going by apparent leaks and rumours that have been going for the last year or so. I'm not going to be upgrading to any of these cards so I have no stake in any of it, it's just interesting to me, moreso because rumours persist about these new Navi chips to the point that nVidia may be holding back a little in case it's necessary... again, apparently.
Everything we've heard about it could all be a big lie but we won't know until they release, and until then it's interesting to speculate based on what little information we have. As I said in an earlier post, simple maths show that at the very least, Big Navi should be a hell of a performance improvement over current Navi cards. And that alone is interesting.
The point is, at the moment AMD seems to be at a significant disadvantage with Nvidia to the point where it is only competitive because the green team is still on last gen fabs. With what we know now, even if all Nvidia does this year is to release a shrinked version of Turing they would have a significant advantage against what we can see of Navi. Any good will that AMD has atm is stems from the console hype, disregarding how little we actually know about the next gen consoles (price?).
Is it impossible that Navi 2 could be much better than Navi? Is not impossible, and it would be great if we actually have some competition on the GPU market. But is up to AMD to prove us that they can compete and have yet to do so. Comments like "
AMD has been killing it! " or "
just do the math" are unearned by AMD and have no basis on what we currently know.
I mean, what are we expecting of
big Navi right now... a card that finally matches/beat the 2 years old 2080ti? That looks good only because Nvidia has been charging whatever they want on the high end space, since they only compete against themselves.
