ATI Aiming For R300 Deja-Vu: Officially Launches 4800 Campaign

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You could put it like this:

"ATI pre-release and release drivers suck, so when G92b arrives, I hope Cat 8.7 or 8.8 can pull a miracle off and actually compete with them"

Giving 4 examples as performance kept in a box is not a fact. It's hope.

Fact is, for now, we know HD4850 is performance equivalent to an 8800GT, I am not saying it's its final performance, I just wouldn't hope big performance increases.

1- G92b is made to 9800GT
2- G92b is equal to G92. There aren´t any arquitectural changes. The arquitectural changes are caled GT200.
3- 9800GT will carry G92b. It will have versions with G92 and other with G92b, so clocks will be the same. Nvidia are playing very carreful with 55nm.
4- Even with G92b there are no miracles when you only can increase Core clocks. You get 5-10% performance jump Max. Or just pick one G92, put it on Overclock and there you have your G92b performance.

5 and Last- By performance figures known HD 4850 is heading agains 9800GTX and not 8800GT. Your called fact can only come from one Nv fanboy arround here. You can say that HD 4850 come to prices of 8800GT but with performance of 9800GTX. That´s the speculation that we have seen by all those numbers coming out.