The Alias
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That's the same point I am talking about with the 1070, $380 msrp, vs the fury x, $650, as this is the same issue here and you need to compare the 1080 to it to be even close really unless the 1070 ti is released.
Except the 1070 did beat the fury x and even the titan x until this vulkan update and even then the list of games supporting it is absolutely tiny so unless that is fixed and dx 12 still continues to be the main runner it wont be as big a issue as even though amd does clearly get a boost in dx 12 right now it's not a big enough deal to be a issue with nvidia until we see what vega does in 2017.
The rx480 is a replacement for 380/960 class cards not 390/980 class cards. So your original question should be why doesn't the 480 outperform the 970? To which your answer would be it already does. However that would not fit the way you're trying to spin things now would it?