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Nobody knows the bare performance of this Vega HBM2 based card. So everyone's speculating and assuming it's in between the 1070 and 1080Ti. Who cares.
What we DO need is 2 competetive company's who create graphic cards which are both affordable (and i'm talking 150 ~ 300 range) and offers the best value related to performance. The high-end spot is only for a few people where we're talking 600 to 1200 for one single graphics card.
The RX480 was a very good product. Was on par and fast enough if you had a golden chip that went up to 1400Mhz. We need a chip from both camps that put the prices in a ideal spot. On paper vega looks promissing but we all need to await benchmarks before anyone can judge about it.
Ryzen is a decent (gaming) chip as well. It had a better 40% IPC compared to vishera and thus mission accomplished. You are buying 1000$ intel performance for 400$ these days. Be gratefull for having AMD up there bringing up great products.
I think you'll find the high end market covers far more % of the PC gaming population than you'd think and the market is also shifting towards lower volume and higher price points. RX480 is the bottom of the stack for high end, you could say, but this is the performance level any PC gamer would start to consider / would find ideal to start with. Go lower and the choice is easy: you buy a console.