Quote Originally Posted by y2kbos View Post
HD2900XT beats 8800 in 3d mark vantage now I think
maybe the 2900xt does, but the 3870 loses to the g92 gts by a large margin, and the 3870x2 loses to 9800gx2.

AliG believes otherwise..
Not at all, when did ever say that, you need to my posts better before you call someone out like that. Besides you were the one that brought up the 2900xt beating the 8800 cards, not me, so I think you should be thinking about your own posts instead of mine.

Since nobody knows what the actual 4xxx specs are, its hard to say how will they will perform in games. But judging by the x1800-->x1900 transition and how both major rumors have many supporters, I think we'll see a lot of power comming from ati. Even if the 4870 has only 480 shaders, it should have a much higher shader clock (compared to 3870) since the 1.2 TFLOPs number seems to be a given now, which still means lots of performance coming our way.

And thus, I believe this battle for the high end will truly rest upon how well ati's drivers are for the 4870x2, and how well games are coded for both sides, as this should be much closer than the r600 vs g80 battle last year