So the livestream of AMD finished a few hours ago :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwlQvjwYFEM

(starts at 16:00).

They announced the RX 480 that supposedly fully supports VR for $199-$249.

Although we don't have many benchmarks, i'm quite hyped about these products and the next CPU/GPU i'll buy will be AMD. (had Nvidia gpus for almost 15 years).

I'll wait for benchmarks, but since the 3xx generation was quite disappointing (all but one card just being a rebrand of the earlier generation? please... at least the 2xx series had a few new ones), I'm not sure I have much hope.

I've been on AMD/ATI GPUs for nearly as long as you've been on Nvidia, and on AMD CPU's for a little longer, and I'm not looking to switch (I'll start thinking about it the day Nvidia announces they're going to open-source their Linux drivers, I doubt it'll happen any time soon though, seeing the performance comparisons between their and AMD's cards).

Not hyped. Disappointed that Bristol Ridge AM4 is MIA, RX 480 looks okay, but I'll wait for reviews, as for Zen, I'll believe it when I see it (benchmarked).

MIA? What does that mean?

Missing In Action... It should appear since most motherboards appear some weeks before (or at the same time) with the supported CPUs.

RX 480 is exceptional if it can give 4GB VRAM for $200 or better yet 8GB. It'll be pushing the envelope in a big way in terms of advancement in minimum levels of VRAM. Good to see. I don't get the hype for the ''full VR support'' thing. There are cards that can work on VR devices already, and ones were existing before they even officially launched them, ie they worked with the devkits. Not a big deal.
Hopefully $200 translates into $200 where I live as well. And not $300 like it normally is.

Zen will come out with HL3 it seems. No reason to talk about it when they're not motivated enough to complete it.

Fully supports VR? What does that even mean? Sounds pretty vague to me.

The Oculus Rift and Vive define a minimum level of performance that would give a good VR experience. The RX 480 should provide that minimum level. Much better, I'm sure. When there's just one company, there's no need to make trouble for other companies. I'm not sure if NVIDIA will be able to live in that situation. It's not much fun creating locked standards when there's nobody to suffer from them, and since NVIDIA likes exclusivity, its higher ups might just quit and move to Apple.

Hm, this seems a very good option. I guess I will replace my R9 270x with RX 480 at the end of this summer. This also means Vulkan and AMD OPEN GPU support from the start on new version of Ubuntu/Mint. As much as I can see its hovering around R9 390x for performance and between Nvidias 970 - 980 cards. Hopefully the price won't be too overblown in Europe.

Waiting for a decent CPU to replace my Xeon.

Can display the shapes of the letters 'V' and 'R' on one or more monitors, even in different typefaces, should you wish to do so, and using one or multiple of a host of different video interfaces and protocols.

It can do that? All right, I'm sold.

I am so sad. I miss the days when choosing between Intel and AMD or nVidia and ATI was actually tough. Competition was great for us consumers. But ever since AMD went full retard there isn't really any choice any longer. There is clearly good hardware and clearly second rate (but cheap) hardware. Oh well.