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JEMC said:

If you wonder how much have videocards performance increased in the last five years, HardOCP has made a series of articles comparing GPUs from 2013 to 2018 in 14 games. In the first articles they compared only Nvidia GPUs, and yesterday they started with the AMD ones. Here are the links:

Nvidia

• NVIDIA GPU Generational Performance Part 1_ comparing the GTX 780, 980 and 1080: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/07/25/nvidia_gpu_generational_performance_part_1/
• NVIDIA GPU Generational Performance Part 2_ comparing the GTX 780Ti, 980Ti and 1080Ti: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/08/07/nvidia_gpu_generational_performance_part_2/
• NVIDIA GPU Generational Performance Part 3_ a comparison between the vanilla and the Ti models of the first two articles: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/08/16/nvidia_gpu_generational_performance_part_3/

AMD

• AMD GPU Generational Performance Part 1_ comparing the R9 290X, 390X, Fury X and Vega 64: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/09/04/amd_gpu_generational_performance_part_1/

Sometimes the increased performacne is staggering. Other times it's almost laughable.

I think I'll give some credency to the conspiracy theorists and say the Kepler cards were pretty much thrown in the fire. Laughable driver performance after Maxwell, even in games there were no obvious memory / bandwidth bottleneck.

Otherwise performance seems consistently around 60 - 80% of the expected performance increase if you merely look at their technical specs, except for the embarassing Fiji and its spawn, Vega.