Luxmark Luxball scene is almost only showing the strength of high bandwidth vram, nothing more.
Nowadays gpu’s should at least be compared with Mic or Hotel. The simple luxball scene is worthless for renderpower judgement.
Agreed. I wish Blender team released an updated benchmark results similar to their old one (over 1 year old results)
Still it showed regular Vega being a very good rendering device. So a relative 25% boost applied to these numbers would bring it nicely forwards, just not at that price… 
https://download.blender.org/institute/benchmark/latest_snapshot.html
That’s the whole issue. In terms of technology, AMD has thrown everything (7nm, HBM) at this product. It’ll be very hard to make it cheaper. NVIDIA on the other hand is using an older process and cheaper memory on the 2080. They could lower prices much more easily, but the way it seems now, they don’t have to.
Unless necessary, don’t buy any of these products. Let NVIDIA know the price ain’t right.
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The guys at Guru 3D just announced the initial performance potential with overclocking software (with the stock cooler).
Pushing the card a bit will mean a 6 percent increase (on average) in graphics performance, which puts it just barely behind the 1080 Ti and the Titan X Pascal version (while leaving a nice gap between it and the 1080).
If AMD manages to achieve some nice fine-wine driver updates with this model, this card could eventually pull ahead of the entire Nvidia Pascal lineup. The downside though is that the unit will remain power-hungry, but that does not stop gamers from getting products like Intel 18’s core monster of a chip.
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