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EricHiggin on 06 December 2018
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haxxiy said:
JEMC said:

Well, I'm not jumping on the hype wagon yet with all these rumors. As I said, it's too good to be true.

That said, I was at HardOCP checking the discussion of this video, that is from AdoredTV (Wccftech only reports it), and Kyle Bennett stepped in to comment: "There is a whole lot of reality in that video. A lot. There is a little wrong, but not a lot."

That makes me thing that either he's trolling the members of his own site, or that there's more true than we are willing to accept.

AMD would crank up the prices if they had anything very good in hand. They aren't more than doubling the performance-per-price value of the Polaris / Vega cards from one year to the other, it's too agressive for a company who needs money for R&D etc. so badly to compete.

Compare Ryzen retailing for $500 versus the meek FX for no more than $200, or Vega coming for a mere $500 - $700, way lower than the top GeForce cards, when it's implied the design is quite troublesome to manufacture.

That would be my two cents at least.

You have to take competition into account more so then you have. The GTX 1000 line hasn't really come down in price much because there is no reason. Vega is weak competition so there is little reason to lower the prices of the 1000 series. Just look at what Intel has done to their line up in terms of dropping prices and adding cores. Intel was taking baby steps and as soon as Ryzen showed up, they started jogging and then quickly leaping. If Navi truly competes with the GTX 1000 series for the rumored prices, you can bet Nvidia will drop prices quickly to remain as competitive as necessary.

Not to mention market share and mind share. AMD is like Tesla right now. Mostly still buzz. Tesla is no GM or Toyota though, and Intel and Nvidia are. AMD needs to gain market share, and as quickly as possible, because Intel is going to strike back as soon as they can, which won't be for a while, and with the recent RTX 2000 series falling flat, right now is the time for AMD to put the pedal to the metal and make as much of a dent as possible.

I would say the prices seem a little low for the GPU's. Another $50 at least per SKU would make much more sense, and it could potentially be even more than that, depending on how low Nvidia can afford to go with the 1000 series.



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