Hopefully Zen puts AMD back in the game as far as IPC goes. Intel needs a competitor for gaming applications in my opinion.

I'm seriously considering a R9 390, it'll likely be fairly reasonably priced and should easily beat the 980GTX on performance. With liquid cooling, it might not make the same sawmill level noise than AMD cards seem to make and the extra wattage is of no concern in practical terms.
If the rumors of this card being better than the Titan X; I don't think it's even worth discussing which card to get this year.
I do hope they'll release it quite soon though, I'm itching to build a new rig as soon as possible.

It has been heavily rumored that AMD will reveal their new RX 3XX series of cards this June, either at Computex or at the new PC conference that will take place at E3, with the cards launching in late June or early July.

I am really looking forward this new cards and their prices.

Any incling as to how they'll be priced? I think it's safe to assume that the 390 will be as much as or more than the 980GTX currently sits at. If there is any hold to the Titan X rumors, I think it could be among the most expensive AMD ever released.

thb why even bother selling 2gb cards?

Well, the latest rumors about price were in March and theyr put the 380X (which is sopposed to be a match for the GTX 980) at $400. Meanwhile, the 390 would cost around $700 and the 390X with its liquid cooler... more than that (no, really, no price was given besides being more than $700).

I really hope (and think) those prices are wrong, because a mid-tier card being $400 is ridiculous, and leaving a gap of almost $300 between the 380X and the 390 is huge.

Yeah, that sounds like a lot, that would likely put the liquid cooled 390 at 8000-9000SEK for me then and a standard version at a whooping 7000SEK or so.

games don't need more in mid details/1080p and that's what the 370 cards are for

but graphics cards manufacturers will surely supply 370 models with larger video ram, the 2GB is just the base model

These slides are really hard to read with all that marketing bullshit on top.

Well GTA5 already needs more than 2GB. And thats a crossgen game and its a good port.

What will happen to mediocre /bad ports of  current gen only games?

Thats why I am asking.    I mean the crappiest $30 cards from 2010 or so had 1GB of memory. Cheap laptops with their super low end GPUs have up to 2GB of memory so idiots think "wow so many GB? must be good".  I dont understand why they didnt just start with at lest 3GB.