78% performance increase in one generation should be very easy yeah. Just child's play to make a jump so big that we've never seen anything like it in the last decade, easy, no stress.
£400 on a GPU that's slower than the new consoles?
Very true, got an email from my Dell Account Manager this morning discussing an incorrectly placed Order for some laptops, she remarked "Might be an idea to hang onto those extra laptops as we are experiencing delays again getting CPU's from Intel" i wanted to reply "Why dont you get some AMD CPU's instead then" but it just falls on deaf ears.
I believe our Global Dell account is up for renewal soon, i am on a few decision making boards so will try and push my influence for us to consider other vendors who will offer AMD alternatives, as ultimately, the goal is to save money, regardless of what us IT guys want, everything is financially driven, if we can show them AMD is a cheaper option with better performance etc they'll normally bite.
Problem is what other largescale OEM's will offer that? Lenovo and HP? not sure what their offerings are like currently.