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I mean... The 7800XT doesn't look horrible (well, compared to current context, I don't wanna lose perspective that midrange prices overall have gotten a bit out of hand). But that's on paper and it's first party paper so it might as well be toilet paper.
With that said, if the claims materialize, I might be in the market for it, in part because of the blatant upsell pricing of both cards which make it very hard to not be willing to stretch those 50 extra bucks for the 7800.
I just wish that AMD had taken the chance to be hyper aggressive in their pricing instead of just timidly undercutting NVIDIA's prices just a tad but these past 2 generations have made it obvious that they don't intend to do so. They both better pray that Intel doesn't have a magic rabbit inside their hat because they are leaving the GPU market ripe for penetration.
GPU makers are still adjusting to the crypto crash that artificially created demand for their product. They’re letting the customers lower prices by not purchasing overpriced products.
Also, GPU’s only recently dropped to MSRP on store shelves so the current trend is for things to go back to normal.