Certainly less stupid than the people who said Navi was going to be 200-250 dollars with rtx 2080 performance while taking into account the cost of 7nms.
Nvidia does not need to use the rumor mill and a guerrilla marketing plan like AMD.
If anything, it is in Nvidia's best interest to prevent leaks unlike AMD because they have an entire lineup of cards selling well and any news of a new card on the horizon is detrimental to their sales and devalues their current inventory. They are not in the same situation as AMD which uses leaks, fake leaks and a misinformation campaign to their advantage. This is clear if you look at the length of bread crumbs leading up to any AMD release.
AMD has used guerrilla marketing and the rumor mill for years because since Maxwell AMD has been late to launch card compared to Nvidia. Haven't you noticed that with every AMD card launch, there is a very aggressive rumor marketing campaign that are designed to hype up AMD's next release well well before launch and these are timed right after Nvidia launches their cards. Why is this the case?
This is to stall sales of Nvidia cards and to put the blame of any hype and misinformation on the rumor sites and on forum posters.
Nvidia controls and prevents leaks from occurring because leaks are detrimental when your cards are selling well. On the other hand if your cards are not selling well and only your competitors have new cards on the market, it can help stall your competitors sales, particularly if these rumors are placed on cards which your existing cards don't compete in. i.e the high end for AMD(fiji, Vega and somewhat Navi).
The point I am trying to make is we cannot base Nvidia release dates based on rumors because Nvidia is very good at controlling rumors until the launch date is near. Similarly, you can't predict the launches of AMD based on rumors because the rumors are not designed with any real information to give an accurate gauge of performance. They are designed to get people to wait as long as AMD needs to get their cards out.
Riiight. You say that AMD has guerilla marketing, but you do not see the hype that is created right now for upcoming Nvidia GPUs?
What was it? 50% faster while consuming 50% less power? Q2 2020 release for whole next gen lineup?
Have you ever considered the fact that this is exactly the thing that Nvidia does, that you accuse AMD of doing?
Why would they do it, you may ask?
Maybe because Samsung's process failed, and because of it, they are one year late to the party, and need to keep interest in their products, because so far, even without halo product, AMD has been outplaying them, which RX 5600 XT is the best example of? Maybe because they have nothing for time being to counter AMD upcoming products?
Everything has been laid out by people who know. Again, its up to you guys to cope with reality.
There will be new GPUs from Nvidia this year. But there are only two possibilities. RTX 2080 Ti Super, or GA100 based Titan A, with eye watering price.