Undying:

What if 7600xt costs 479$ and its fast as 6900xt? Then you can bang you head against the wall.

Are we going to see a performance increase at $200 though? We still haven't had a performance increase at that price point, if anything, we've seen reductions in performance (lower vram) and features at that price.... Still 480/580 performance at $200

Undying:

What if 7600xt costs 479$ and its fast as 6900xt? Then you can bang you head against the wall.

Exactly, loads of factors, new warrenty and maybe lower running costs but possibley worse performance in older games and greater running costs. Probably the main reason I skip a generation, to see a significant jump in performance, that and that I can't be arsed to mess about with my Waterloop.

Undying:

What if 7600xt costs 479$.

And I can't see even a midrange next gen card coming in at that price.

We might never see another new "gaming" GPU as low as $200.

Back in my day,I used to be able to buy a chocolate bar,bag of chips and a pop for 25 cents. As of today GPU prices have been dropping for months back to 2019/2020 prices.They will not fall back to 2000/2005/2010 prices. Anyway my local computer shop was selling AMD 6900XT cheaper than 6800XT when I was looking for 6950XT on release. Personally I will always buy the PC parts for my PC Gaming entertainment,there is always a console for a cheaper gaming experience. I do want one of these 6950XT,so I will see how far the price drops in the next few weeks.

Undying:

What if 7600xt costs 479$ and its fast as 6900xt? Then you can bang you head against the wall.

It would be nice to return to how the market used to work. It doesn't seem likely if this refresh is any indicator of what's to come.

Price/performance and power/performance look pretty decent! Assuming you can get one at MSRP (and I won't be paying a penny more!)

If these cards were the same price my 5700 XT came in at, around 480€ - I'd be fine with it. Just ... they start around 55% more expensive. That's not too good :| I guess the 5700 XT was also a bit more expensive at launch, but well, not this expensive I don't think. And I just checked! A 5700 (non-xt) went for 390€ here just 2,5 years ago! Now? 740€! And up untill just a month ago it was 1340€! Guess I should've sold my 5700 XT when they were going for 675€ used... would've been a easy 55€ to get a 6700 XT or 3070Ti. (which I'd probably get instead at this point in time). But, I'll just wait till we get a new gen. And then some 😛

The 5700xt was not a top end card, merely the highest 5xxx card AMD made. There is no comparison to a 6950xt.