Yeah, price too high for a "Gaming" card but a steal if its a "compute" card. This is sort of what I meant by my comment.
My comment regarding HD 4870 Redux is based on the previous info that Radeon 7 would have full DP function, thus it be a "Titan Killer", ie a $700 card that would steal sales from AMD's own $1,000+ cards and most importantly NV's $2,000+ cards. My comment was more so "do you guys really think after watching AMD price this right around RTX 2080, that AMD would leave thousands of dollars on the table if their actual target was MI/Titan tier?"
Something was fishy, and more info is revealing that something isn't right. It makes more sense for a $700 purely gaming focused card to battle another purely gaming card. But still, you keep reading posters expecting AMD to basically give away performance/features/etc at their expense.