That's natural, 2 years ago was the mining boom, you can't really compare that to now. It's an entirely different scale of product consumption. It's quite amazing the market has reached this level of expansion purely from gaming.
Thanks for doing the math work for us, I really didn't have the time to spell them out like this.
Did the world jump into another reality while I was gone and Fuad suddenly became a credible source?
Yes, I did misread it.
True. Lisa Su did mention in the 2019 3rd Quarter Earnings call that GPU's declined a bit sequentially from the previous quarter.
Oh, I've seen the articles which never had any actual sources for them (aside other sites claiming same). I've just never seen those claimed price cuts happen anywhere and pricewatching services seem to have completely missed them too. I just manually checked several different RX 570 and 580 models in Finnish Hinta.fi, same story as everywhere else, no notable price cuts during Q2 (Except for Asus Strix, but that was ridicilously overpriced before and was dropped to same level as others).
It's not about price cuts per say here, it's about the media going crazy over the mouth drooling cheap prices of the Polaris cards compared to the competition. This got the public attention. AMD also made several attractive game bundles for the Polaris cards on top of the very cheap prices, that also helped getting the budget oriented public to embrace them during Q2.
Seriously? Where exactly do you suggest one would look? I follow the prices as part of media for my work, I've checked several price watch sites in the US and EU, I've checked several news outlets.
It's not Kaotik, who is blind.
I think he might have been confused regarding launch prices vs prices in the quarters you mentioned, where the cheapest variants at launch were about $225.
