cucker tarlson No cards from Q2 17 to Q1 19. AMD just doesn't give a crap about pc gaming, all they care about is profiting from consoles,mining and HTC, gamers get leftovers.

If it wasn't for consoles, mining and HTC, AMD would be dead already, and then you would be paying 2000$ for a 1080TI.Keep in mind that not enough website test GPU's 6-12 months after they get released. Then you see the real performance over time.Nvidia is very good at providing the best performance when a card gets released, but their drivers can't keep up months or years after the hardware gets released.One of the most thrustworty websites in the Benelux benchmarked the Vega 64 vs the 1080 and 1080ti back in august 2017.At that time, the 1080 was about 5% faster on 1080P and about 1% faster on 1440p.They retested the same hardware with updated drivers in june 2018:The 1080 was now only 0.3% faster on 1080p and 0.8% faster on 1440p.The same results are available for hardware from older generations. While the GTX 980 was about 4.7% faster on 1080p compared tot the R9 390x in 2015, the R9 390x is now about 1% faster then the GTX 980 in modern games. The 980ti was 17% faster then the Fury X in 2015 on 1080p, but in modern games, it's only 0.7% anymore.AMD hardware performs better over time, even with all the shady deals and agreements Nvidia makes with developpers. Not to mention FreeSync vs Gsync.But do you think most gamers know this? NO. They are still buying the GTX 1080, supporting Nvidia. They still base their opinion on Vega and previous generations, based on the first reviews that came out, and not on recent benchmarks.AMD does care about gamers, but they simply don't have the research budget and capacity to keep up with Nvidia.It's something that TPU should do aswell. They should test hardware from 2016, two years later, and show how the performance difference evolved over time.