I think the so-called 'fine-wine' will continue. the theoretical maximum performance of the cards has always been there from the start but AMD launch drivers have been so piss-poor that it ties 1 arm behind its back. so comparing 6800/6900XT at launch vs 1-2 years down the line you will see improvements.
comparatively versus Ampere is a different story, very much dependent on AMD's equivalent of DLSS whether that could close any gaps. Just looking at RTX ON in Cyberpunk 2077 and it does not look promising for RNDA2
To be fair to AMD here....
When NVidia made hay about their first gen RTX and DLSS....it SUCKED. DLSS was a blotchy ugly mess; and for all the PR Nvidia hawked about RTX,
absolutely nothing supported it. A year later when titles appeared that supported it--it tanked performance, absolutely tanked it. Fast forward a generation and a couple years, and DLSS2 is pretty darn good looking--and RTX actually has
a few games that support RTX and
some of them you might even want to play. I think the total RT supporting titles out there--even now--is maybe all of 2x dozen?
The point...AMD is in their first gen RT hardware and DLSS. TBH, it is amazing it works as well as it does. Ampere cranked up the performance of Turing almost as many percent as the power draw.
Hopefully in a couple years, we'll be looking back going WTF at the power draws for performance the same way today welook at dual-GPU monster cards today like the NVidia 295 or the Radeon 3870x2
