Wake me up when it goes near claimed 379$ (which is still 50$ above 970).
When nVidia started new round of price gouging with "FE editions" for 1070/1080, some bright minds explained, that it's "a new process" which is "moar expensive" and that's why.
And all that despite the fact, that 980Ti was a 600mm2 card, 980 was 400mm2 and 1070/1080 are ~300mm2.
Now we see AMD coming with the new process, formidable perf, oh, and for less money than previous gen (280 was 279$).
They probably have cheaper "new process", I guess.
Oh, and all those "evil retailers", not nVidia's fault.
RX480 is likely above 970, but below 980.
Note that AMD compared it to both, which wouldn't make sense if it was above 980 performance wise.
Isn't it a great card given it's price and low power consumption (likely under 130w) if it is beteen 970/980?
Setting expectations that it must beat 980... Why is that? To bash it and be disappointed when it appears to be what I said above?
Something else?
I can't make any sense off it.