Nvidia Ampere announced, 3090, 3080, 3070 coming later this year

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eva01beserk said:

JRPGfan said:

RDNA2 will likely beat the 3070, and come close to the 3080 (likely still be below it).
Theres no way AMD makes a card that can compete with the 3090 though.

Its a 350-400watt monster of a GPU.
AMD refuse to make cards with chips that big, or that go into that wattage.

they dont even need to, thats not where the competition is. 

They where only able to compete with the 70 before, now they will step it up be be able to compete with the 80. Thats more than enough for amd to shake things up in the gpu space like they did in the cpu space with ryzen. 

Halo products are important. Ryzen did well because it was crushing Intel in the high end as well as midrange. If Ryzen was only midrange then they wouldn't even have a fraction of the success.

While having the performance of a 3080 is good, it's still a tough sell since it is lacking all the features Nvidia has to offer. Simply being as fast as a 3080 will not be enough for AMD to succeed. Nvidia also has plenty of head room to lower prices and they have shown in the past that they are willing to do so when competing with AMD.