Offering better value than the 40 is a good start but that's far short of where we could be. I know the fact that prices have drastically outpaced CPI (and incomes) is old news, but I thought it'd be helpful to make that value comparison. Even accepting that the 7900XTX is at a tier or two higher than the 7970 in its day, I think we'd be lucky to see that kind of value at the predicted prices I'm seeing for the 7800XT and 7700XT. Both of them traded blows with the more expensive 590 and 580s. The 7950 at $450 was arguably even better. The higher end, bigger die release of the HD7970 at $550MSRP in 2012 (Just under $700 in 2022 dollars) was also good value for the money. I know an apples to apples comparison in performance is hard when featuresets change so much and one of those apples is 14 years old, but the 4870 sat much higher in charts back then than the 6650XT did last year. The closest launch MSRP and die size equivalent earlier this year would be the 6650XT.
I ran the launch MSRP of $300 through the Bank of Canada Inflation Calculator and that puts it at just over $400 in 2022 dollars.
I really liked the "Let's start with the price point most people buy at and just ace it" approach of the 4870 small die launch. The state of GPU prices compelled me to check back on two of my favourite launches of the past: the HD4870 and the 7970. That pattern may show distortion or inaccurate dimensions of the plate or components themselves, to where adjusting the torque of a few screws, including taking some pressure off of one or more may be beneficial. Here you are not trying to counter pressure with pressure, have no relevant moving parts and whatever forces they bring to worry about, nor need to worry about heat distorting the plate at these temps and it's relative size, and finally: Once the screws bottom out, there's already enough pressure (by design), and any extra torque is only to keep the screws from coming loose. In the case of an engine it's about maintaining good seals, and preventing premature wear by eliminating physical distortion of the cylinder heads, not better heat dissipation. Who said they don't have the assembly specs (Order and torque) if they even matter anywhere near to the same degree as on cylinder heads? They don't! You sound like an audiophile getting their panties in a knot over frequency ranges outside of human hearing, or some guitar player who thinks the type and amount of paint on their electric guitar makes any measurable difference, let alone an audible one! What good is being 100% accurate, when you are accounting for all the wrong things? And since when is 100% even necessary when there's a range of tolerances, or where the difference between more or less of something makes no measurable difference? What does "It's not 100% test" even mean? I think you left out the word "Accurate".
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