1) Blind Test - That's true, but still people who buy check benchmarks, don't forget AMD did exactly that with Bulldozer and we know how that ended up.... If AMD thought that they had a winning horse they would not hide the performance numbers, they would PR that like crazy, like they are doing with Ryzen and ThreadRipper.

2) I'm all for AMD to kick Nvidia's ass in compute and end cuds's reign but it won't sell gaming cards. Vega FE (A 1000$ card) is out for a month and I haven't seen anyone benchmark it and show that it's better, Even if games will use it there is a heck of a difference between building the model and running inference.