Yeah me too, as much as I want AMD to do better than Nvidia I don't think they will be able to match the new 3x. Not to forget Nvidia still has their Ti's and Supers and what not. Crazy. Not to forget AMD's serious pricing issues here in India. And I honestly don't know how long the "VFM" will work for them. But hey I'm no economist or market expert.
Btw my guess for the new 3x would be 55k for the 3070 single fan (if any), 60k for dual-fan and even higher for more premium variants.
IF the card is single fan than ithink it would be a ceiling fan attached to it.
Jokes Apart
The logic of RTX 3000 pricing and launch
They wanted to undercut XBOX and PS users but failed as microsoft has already announced the prices within days
-If you call those who purchased RTX20 series Lab rats ,than one who would be buying RTX 3000 are the Beta testers.i cannot comment that they have bad architecture unfortunately they are let down by chip manufacturer SAMSUNG they make great memory dies but not the processing chip overall their 8nm is not that efficient on power + no stable higher clocks and temperature issues.
to understand the real world example ,Samsungs top of the line smartphones have EXYNOS chip an Snapdragon ships ,some countries get SD & some EXYNOS , the performance gap is clearly is visible SD scores higher than exynos and has less temperature .Who makes SD its TSMC who makes Exynos its samsung. Samsung doesnt sell exynos in S korea in their top of phones how paradoxial
-AMD might not be able to surpass it or match it or may be they will ,but it will compensate us with higher VRAM ,efficient chip with a mature chip with maybe a good high stable FREQ. anthe performnce gap to nvidia would be 10-15 frames.
-Nvidia at some point next year will switch to TSMC for the chips (as the fabrication slot will open up) for upgraded RTX 3000 series with higher vram and maybe a montrosity named TITAN might be launched.
not an AMD fanboy but i assume radeon was a step back becasue they wanted to take a jump .