the current thinking amd has is its supposed to be a game/production card with the 16gb of HB2 justifying production side ( also hbm2 added about $150 to the price), but in reality its a 2080 level card that doesn't offer the same feature set as the 2080 like ray tracing and DLSS, which love or hate is a key selling point and is why they can charge $700usd+, we know navi is coming in some form but amd are ether still testing it OR don't think its worthy of a CES keynote, most reactions iv seen are the same as everyone's here, a mix of "umm ok,what?" to "what a joke", the only thing i see pushing people to the radeon 7 it is if they want the free games, they don't care about the things you get with RTX like DLSS etc, and this is all with the assumption it can go blow to blow with the 2080 in games, which if it can't its not worth $700, i have my own ideas on why they showed this card but there based on leaks and rumours and not fact.