I'm fine with 12nm as long as the performance is noticeably better than RTX2080Ti.
And who really cares about 7nm..
Just look at AMD's shitty 5700XT, it's 7nm but can barely match NVidia's last gen mid-range card(RTX2070) despite not having the latest RTX feature and much higher TDP(175W vs 225W).. that's just sad.
Well, you already saw how the 2080 Super turned out...
What do you mean, 'the 5700XT barely matches the RTX 2070'? The 5700XT outperforms it(now replaced by the 2060 Super), while being the same price.
And who really cares about power consumption besides laptop users?
The power consumption isn't even that bad, nor that big of a deal... look at the RX Vega 64, heck, look at your own build! You're not actually concerned with power consumption, are you?
You've got enough headroom on that psu to SLI the 2080Ti if you wanted, otherwise, you're only using about half it's total output at times.
They only ones who should be concerned with power are laptop users. The limit to what kind of hardware can be put into these lil' toasters without making them any heavier and forcing people to include cooling pads is already here.
Nvidia will do better simply because of the bigger budget - this is one of AMD's weaknesses. It's the reason there are so many driver issues with AMD products.
Nvidia can afford to send teams out to all these different developers and work with them to make drivers for games and other applications... you don't really see or hear about that with AMD much. Maybe they don't care to do it?
Could it be? I don't know.
Doubt they'll come out swinging from the gate, though. They won't need to - they'll just pull another Titan Xp and Super launch with the next cards, and blah, blah, blah, I'm going to stop, because I just now realized I'm in the middle of one of my rants again!