Impressive, such a huge amount of wild expectations spawned from some guesses about performance and price from a random guy.
Setting pricing and bins with final specs is the last step of the qualification process, which usually happens weeks ahead of release. No one, including the engineering team at AMD, knows the final specs 6 or 12 months ahead. Anyone who claimed to know the specs and pricing of Navi 1x or Zen 2 last year, or claims to know Navi 2x pricing/specs now is lying, because you can't know a fact that doesn't exist yet. For products far into the future AMD operates with rough targets, not precise pricing, product naming, core config or clocks.
And one last thing about Navi, by the time it arrives, Nvidia will be soon preparing their next generation.
Depends on what you look at. In direct computing power the VII beats the 2080 by 30%.
Performance matters, not specs. RTX 2080 have much fewer "cores", far less GFlop/s and is made on an "inferior" node, and yet it outperforms Radeon VII.