I just want to point out that on the same page of this thread there are polar opposite screen shots shown about it's performance... while this single screen shot is exciting I hate to see people getting hyped up about it....
this happens almost every time a new product comes out. I remember the Cayman launch and everyone speculated and hyped it up a bunch and guess what... It's no faster than a GTX 570 card... it was right where you would logically expect it to be...
it is rare that we see a launch that goes against the grain of current performance upgrade trending. the last time it really happened was with the launch of Conroe back in the day... That was a MASSIVE shift... but most of the things before than and since then have been pretty boring overall.
I don't want to be a buzzkill or anything but one of my fondest product speculation memories was the screen shot that showed up showing an R600 GPU (2900xt) scoring 30k in 3DMark06.... that was pretty funny considering the chip was slower than a 8800GTS 640MB and overall total trash...
I'm not saying I expect the same-thing to happen with BD as that would be bad news for everybody but It would be nice if FOR ONCE people did not get all reved up over a product that is over a month away from being released.... and has yet to have an half legitimate information on performance released.