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I like the more realistic pricing provided by AMD here, but I'm not thrilled about pricing still being so high when compared to just a few generations back. I know technology advances and that prices go up (inflation, scarcity, demand, wage increases, etc), but when we were all seeing high end cards such as the 980Ti at MSRP of $650 or the AMD R9 Fury X MSRP of $649.
How about the GTX 1080 MSRP of $599 (and the 1080Ti MSRP of $$699) or the Vega 64 MSRP of $499.
So something to note. Back 10 years ago, when you cut a transistor from 24nm to 16nm, you also made it 50% cheaper (per transistor). So back then, they could offer better-and-better GPUs for cheaper-and-cheaper, because the economics supported it. Today, 7nm to 5nm is not cheaper at all. It gets you better performance (faster, less power usage, etc. etc.), but the shear effort that goes into the 5nm process blows away your budget entirely.
I understand this is the reality now. Chips will get more expensive as they get more advanced from here on out. Moore's Law is dead (again, but in a different way).