[Slingin]

You're just beating around the bush. Dx12 literally just came out last year and as time goes on, devs will continue to support the latest dirext x. True, it may take a few years and by then nvidia will release volta which supports dx12 better then pascal, but who is to know that just because only a few games support dx12 doesnt mean that later this year a lot more titles show up that does.

xfire/sli isnt even that bad compared to a few years back. Drivers get updated almost instantly to support dual gpu. Plus the fact remains that the best sli games scale at around 90%. If dx12 proves to be true nvidia will be donzo if amd can deliver a gpu that can xfire in the ballpark of 80-90% of the gtx 1080 performance while only costing 57%. No one in their right mind would spend $700 to achieve almost the same performance as a setup that costs less then $500.

When the nda lifts on the 29th of june and the RX480 does have the performance of a gtx 980/r9 fury while only costing 199, rip nvidia. I honestly hope amd does which would cause nvidia to drop their price(s) on their flagship cards.

it's that bad... Thats why I am JUST now switching to a single GPU Card.  I can buy another 1080 later on for SLI, or I can wait for a 1080ti.  Either way thats overkill right now for 1440p, and personally I think gaming on a 27" monitor in 4k is counterproductive.  AMD is smart, but if they want to get into the game at a more hardcore enthusiast level they should concentrate on powerful SINGLE GPU cards and back off the $1500 price tag for dual GPU cards.  I loved my r9 295x2 for what it was, and got it for only $800 at the time - but it was aggravating as hell basically playing off a single r9 290 half the time for the price - even at $800.  No more waiting or wandering switching to single GPU.  By the time DX12 becomes the standard, we will talking about the next generation of cards anyway.