MD unveiled its new Radeon RX 5700 line of graphics cards with 7nm chips at E3 last month, and with just days to go before they launch on July 7th, the company has announced new pricing. In the "spirit" of competition that it says is "heating up" in the graphics market -- specifically NVIDIA's "Super" new RTX cards -- all three versions of the graphics card will be cheaper than we thought.
The standard Radeon RX 5700 with 36 compute units and speeds of up to 1.7GHz was originally announced at $379, but will instead hit shelves at $349 -- the same price as NVIDIA's RTX 2060. The 5700 XT card that brings 40 compute units and up to 1.9GHz speed will be $50 cheaper than expected, launching at $399. The same goes for the 50th Anniversary with a slightly higher boost speed and stylish gold trim that will cost $449 instead of $499.
That's enough to keep them both cheaper than the $499 RTX 2070 Super -- we'll have to wait for the performance reviews to find out if it's enough to make sure they're still relevant.
AMD fires back at 'Super' NVIDIA with Radeon RX 5700 price cuts
AMD has to pay Lisa Su's multi-million dollar bonuses somehow.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-su-papermaster-bonuses,40163.html
I think AMD stuck with Raja for far longer than he was relevant. The last few years AMD has been backsliding. From 2012-2014 AMD basically rebadged and tweaked the same GPU base without innovation (Raja rejoined AMD in 2013), Fury was great at first then AMD stopped caring about it and its performance slid, the RX 400 series launched in 2016 and it took AMD 3 years to get Navi on the shelves all the while they just rebadged and pushed out a clearly unfinished, badly designed Vega product which was, and still is, way too expensive and power hungry compared to the competition. Aggressive pricing, especially in the midrange, kept AMD's name around, and the only thing keeping their name around now is that nVidia has not responded with price cuts to the slightly faster 2070 and 2060 Super, which I doubt they will because nVidia doesn't do that.
Because of all that AMD is in such a development hole compared to nVidia, combined with the fact that, like you said, the drivers seem to cause more issues than they solve, not to mention their size is bloated again, over 400mb in size. Granted it's smaller than nVidia's 541MB, there's still no reason it should be that large.
The CPU support list for that motherboard clearly does not list the Ryzen 2400G, so it should be no surprise that it does not work.
nVidia is taking a hit too, no doubt it was a situation of a commanding market share, a high number of GTX 1000 series GPUs making up that market share, and the fact the RTX 2000 series is not -that- much faster than the GTX 1000 series cards they replaced, 10-30% is not that great when you consider that the new cards cost so much. AMD's performance jump from the 580 to 5700XT is triple what nVidia's jump from the 1070 to 2070 is, but as we've discussed before the price is just way too high for what they want, especially when the vast majority of the market games at 1920x1080, not 2560x1440.
