Ah, a fresh AMD GPU release. Blood in the water!
Kind of have mixed feelings on this release. Yeah, the card is a turd in terms of features, ram, performance, price, power... Wait I thought I had something positive to say...
On the other hand, I was never going to buy this thing. Weaker than my 980ti in every meaningful way and less ram to boot. BUT, unless the unthinkable happens, I'm not really going to by buying any release this gen. With that perspective, more cards is a good thing. Flood the zone, get anything and everything out there. At some point supply will level out and exceed demand, or a big bust somewhere will put a glut of used cards onto the market.
The funniest thing about this launch is watching the law of unintended consequences be writ loud. Would be truly ironic if by trying to go bottom barrel on this release and proclaiming themselves the anti-mining gamer saviors, AMD actually costs themselves more money thanks to the reputation hit this thing delivers.
For the people in the know, yes, but imagine you're some guy that is just trying to complete a build or buy a pre-built and this thing craps out or crashes when attempting to turn on RT or doesnt perform any better than a $300 card from 6 years ago, or gets plugged into the vast number of PCI-E 3.0 systems out there...
It's not even some even some low volume part that will end up in 500 computers, this is supposed to be the high volume piece that makes it to the most PCs.
I was starting to wonder where AMD would shoot themselves in the foot this gen, which has been an otherwise excellent showing on their part (no major driver issues, performance parity with NV, near feature parity with NV, it was going so well).