I think some people dont get the Radeon VII that well. Perdormance on par with the RTX 2080 for games is impressive at the same price. Ray tracing at this point doesn,t matter. DLSS at this point doesn't matter.
The problem is that this card will absolutely clobber NVIDIA in the prosumer market. The massive amount of memory bandwith combined, combined with Vega's compute prowess and appearantly untouched FP64 performance (remember this card is a repurposed datacenter card) will eat into Titan V and RTX Titan sales.
You can get monster workstation performance for a lot less then what NVIDIA's charging you for and that hurts them. This card does just ok for gaming, I think AMD knows fully wel the real meat and potatoes is to be found in the mid range when they'll release Navi later on.
At this point, NVIDIA's response is like Apple: "No one does what we do, so the competition doesn't compare". To bad NVIDIA's distinguishing features (RTX, DLSS) are clearly suffering from 1st generation syndrome. AMD can let NVIDIA do all the work cracking open the initial market for ray tracing because it'll be years from now untill the feature will be mainstream and widespread.
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