What's more surprising toms hardware actually questions the viability of NVidia 2080... given the recent shocker of 'just buy it'[0]
That being said, I wonder if the card would have solved its memory controller issues, as the desktop Vega draw too much power when it comes to the memory controller. The desktop version pretty much needs water cooling to produce decent results.
[0]https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-...