Either way you look at it, its an excellent card for the budget market, gen2 dx10, decent memory size, decent memory bandwidth for casual gaming (1280x1024 or 1440x900) and going by initial bench's its a pretty large performance increase over current budget cards.

Just a shame that $200 for the 768mb version will unlikely translate to £100 here in good old england. Probably end up selling for about £130/140 here or $260/280.

Looking forward to 9800GTX though thats my next purchase, kinda need it use a 24" now, poor 2900XT is in tears when i play crysis.