Because they are priced approximately the same? Makes sense to compare similar market segments.
AMD is directly comparing Vega 64 to the 1080 in their slides and present and past presentations this is not by accident or by design, that is reality
It will also reduce the load on ROPs, TMUs, and cache as it will accelerate culling in some cases. Still need more documentation on what steps are being performed.
No it doesn't reduce load on specific components, it reduced bandwidth two different things man. Cache with DSBR will improve pixel culling, but that varies from app to app, and without any real information from AMD other then a variable chart based on apps how did you even consider putting numbers to that? Generalizations based on what nV is doing? Even if you could do that, which you can't, we don't have numbers for so.....
Not sure what expectations I'm setting. Half the fun with AMD is the over the top hype that gets generated. I just crunch the numbers and arrive at a sensible conclusion. The only time that isn't the case involves someone taking the statements completely out of context, often in a manner that makes no sense at all.
Yet no competition for 1080ti but you have imagined it can take on Volta with driver updates? How did your number crunching account for that?