You don't follow the industry closely do you? Are you familiar with when AMD released the 290X and setup a press tent across the street from an Nvidia press conference to steal its thunder? No? Well then, you wouldn't understand why the release of details was postponed when Nvidia released the Titan X on the same day! It was payback and fair in my opinion. A dick move deserves a dick move.
As to pricing, I wasn't saying AMD brought down the 980Ti's price, I said the reverse. Nvidia was waiting to drop it after AMD released its card, but as they couldn't wait much longer and no details were coming until E3 instead of computex, they wanted to get the purchases from people waiting for AMD, and, to be fair, Titan X performance on 4K almost at $650, not a bad deal. AMD's Fury, over time, will crush its performance!!! But, at that price, Nvidia was sacrificing sales of Titan X for the sake of forcing AMD into a lower price range because, on large, Nvidia can afford it better. If AMD didn't lower the suggested rumor price, it would have had worse time justifying the cost and lost sales.
As for the 4GB assertions, you are spouting idiocy. You are comparing two different standards as if they are equal. Is 4GB of DDR2 = 4GB DDR3 = 4GB DDR4 = 4GB GDDR5? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the same way, it takes 6GB-8GB of GDDR5 to equal 4GB of Gen1 HBM!!! In fact, reviewing leaked benchmarks, the Fury X crushes the 980Ti in 5K and 8K!!! Now, to be fair, at 5K and 8K, Titan X outperforms. That is where the memory limitation seems to come in and effect performance... Now, as only apple and few others have 5K, while 8K is NOT SOLD TO CONSUMERS ANYWHERE YET, it will not be an issue until 2017 (which most enthusiasts buying these cards will want to upgrade by then)!!!
Now, as for the reasons for only 4GB instead of 8GB cards. It is a limitation of current interposer tech. Currently, for Gen1, interposers only allow a stack of 1GB of memory to rest on it. To do more, you must use a dual interposer which adds significant costs to production. It is not a lack of memory available, it is that the costs don't justify the return for the initial release!!! As this will only be needed for competing with the Titan X at 5K and 8K gaming, it can wait for the time period of releasing a dual Fiji card this fall without sacrificing sales. So until you go understand more about HBM and how Fury has a 4096-bit memory interface with 512GBps bandwidth that crushes the 980Ti and Titan X bandwidth with about 800 more shader cores than the Titan X and 980Ti which allow faster processing of items normally stuck in memory (I don't want to go into the details because this is EXTREMELY oversimplified and doesn't actually accurately describe what is happening, I apologize to those that know better on how it works and welcome better descriptions for the community at large), please stop spewing NVIDIA marketing BS!!!:biggrin: