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The theory is that fixes for later GCN products propagate to earlier GCN products because architecture (and its slow points etc) is so similar. Also AMD must apply more clever tweaks to paddle against the flow of NVIDIA-based thinking. Games (dx11) tend to be optimized for NVIDIA and not GCN. Or...
I expected the reveal a near launch time.
But Fury X was released in June 2015
Polaris released in June 2016
Expect Vega in June 2017
Until then... meh
Using most powerful card on the market was logical to eliminate bottlenecks from GPU as much as possible. Vega wasn't ready
But then they go and play on 4K, reducing load for CPU. When comparing CPUs that is a weird move.
Well, I sold my 980Ti. Already own a Freesync monitor and waiting for Vega to arrive, 1st day buyer. Zen so far not interesting to me, but if it drags 8 core 16 thread prices down, who would complain?
Market is saturated? Top end, could be, but I was amazed how well RX480 picked up. Competing...