It is great to see AMD admit their gaming GPUs are severely lacking. Polaris is almost two years old now and has no sign of being replaced at the two-year mark, and Vega is a hot mess. GPUs are so boring right now. I know there's usually an ebb and flow in engineering and computing, but GPUs have been dull for many, many months now. We've seen a one or two semi-exciting advancements—Volta offered amazing DX12-specific performance (but at an astronomical price and little uplift in DX11), and prices finally calmed down after the mining storm—but in general it's been years since GPUs have excited me. The GTX 1080 drew less power than a GTX 980, but outpaced it significantly while offering massive clock increases and a semi-new memory design. That's the last time I thought, 'Wow, that's cool.' Vega had lots of cool features, but it ended up being that drummer that turns up to a concert with this huge rack of toms, double kick drums, and an array of hand-hammered Turkish cymbals, to only just be able to manage a basic 4/4 beat. It could play 11/16 timing pretty damn well, but only one track in the setlist required it.