Nickname said:
in b4 another FX5800-style launch from nvidia.
No, we just experienced a FX50000 series with the GTX200 class. More likely expect a late to the punch 6000 series style where the gain is mediocre but comparable to that of the competition.
Nvidia’s hinderance right now is cost. Given unlimited sale price they’d easily beat the *edited* out of ATI with a quadcore or something retarded like that but they chose to move to smaller die sizes while ATI kept perfecting the larger ones and it killed their sales price.
That and their current architecture is pretty inefficient.
Bravo to ATI for finally getting around to making anohter ATI 9800-style epic card. Hopefully the card will last as long as the hype predicts. Being the first DX11 card on the market, and being by ATI… I’m predicting failure. Firsts never win in this market.