I just want to level set everyone here. Nearly two years ago we were talking about how Vega was dogshit power wise and scaled poorly at 64 CUs. RAM prices were through the roof, and most people were saying SSDs were cost prohibitive. People were saying 10TF was optimistic, and that Navi was just another GCN iteration.
Since then, Navi was unveiled to be 25% faster clock for clock than Vega, and nearly as good as Pascal. The drawbacks: no VRS, no RT, and the power efficiency missed the mark. We now know that MS has added the two key missing features there, and appears willing to accept the power hit, making it somewhat inconsequential when comparing to previous gens. We are talking 12TF and 10TF is the min.
Memory and NAND prices have relaxed and we've confirmed SSDs on par or better than some class leading NVMe drives.
HDMI and all its best features have also been confirmed.
We're in the good timeline.