And what happens when Nvidia releases the 1060 and 1050 on the market?
Why does everyone forget the Nvidia lower end cards do exist?
Because they don't exist. We know they are coming, but have no real ideea on perf or price, we can only guess based on past iterations. And based on that, seems that this gen AMD smokes nVidia in mainstream. Also, not having even a hint about a launch date, and AMD looking like will flood the market with high number of boards, they are missing the wave of people that currently can't but want 1080/60fps gaming at 200$. And AMD has the only answer for them right now. Well, for us
As I have a 1080 monitor and no intention to change it in the next few years, and 480 looking like could deliver solid over 60fps and low power, it might hit home for me. And I bet many are thinking the same. And it looks like no equivalent board from nVidia in the next few months. So AMD has the low-mid-midhigh end to itself if they deliver the quantity.
Any board, from nVidia or AMD in 28nm are getting smoked by this.... Noone will want to buy 28nm when this gets launched. Also the SH market might take a hit in prices