Firstly... Adored sources were wrong, plain and simple, now let's concentrate on the real news... Amd is back on top, this is basically 2003 all over again.
In fact it is better, as Intel no longer has the foundry tech to bail them out or the outright targaryan control of the OEMs.
This looks awesome, well balanced architecture... Almost zen like .
We have to have proper reviews obviously, OC, memory support, gaming needs to be tested, but on the whole this looks near flawless from AMD.
I'm sorry but a 9900ks looks like a bulldozer fx9590 vs R9 3900x..
Factory OC, overpriced, burning hot steaming pile of crap compared to the market leader.. R9 3900x.
Yes i9 9900ks is closer in performance than bulldozer was back in the day, but i9 probably consumes more power, has security vulnerabilities, doesn't come with a cooler..fx9590 led in some Mt scenarios. Both desperate attempts to save face, equal in my opinion.
Navi was a surprise, 10% more than a 2070...pretty decent, as long as it comes under 250w, has some OC headroom and is priced accordingly... I would think $399 would put the cat amongst the pigeons, with a higher binned, faster gddr6 and water cooled sapphire version coming in at $499...to match a 2080?...probably expecting too much.
All in all very impressed.