Radeon VII vs. RTX 2080 — which $700 GPU should you get?

The very high end of the video card market has had no real competition for Nvidia in years. AMD has put its efforts instead into beefing up its CPUs and providing some of the best mainstream graphics cards. This has enabled Nvidia to raise prices and focus on features like ray tracing that go beyond the standard framerate horsepower race.

But now AMD is ready to jump back into the fight with the Radeon VII. This card is available for $700, and it squares off nicely against Nvidia’s $700 GeForce RTX 2080. What the Radeon VII doesn’t do is undercut Nvidia either in terms of price or performance. Instead, the Radeon VII is a lot like an RTX 2080 — only AMD is making different promises for the future.