Many review sites claim that the 7800GS is the best AGP card so far because of the various new features it has. Not only that, it scores higher in actual game play then the X850. AND if you are too into 3dmark... you can see that in here too the 7800gs wins yet again if you consider all the '03, '05, and '06 scores as a whole. So yes... OVERALL the 7800GS is a much better card then the X850 and this is not coming from a fanboy since a have both old ATI and Nvidia cards. I just see which card is the best at the moment and buy it, isnt that the logical thing to do?

The only card that I see coming out in the near future that maybe could take the AGP crown from Nvidia is the X1700 series. Its 'supposed' to be 8-1-3-2 with 6 vertex units at around 500mhz, also with 256mb on 256bit. So at those specs the 7800GS would indeed lose out. But ill wait until ATI release it before I decide which one to buy.