Quote Originally Posted by Luka_Aveiro View Post
1 - Or is it to 9900GT?
2 - Architectural and not arquitechtural. It's an English forum, not a Portuguese-english one (I already told you that)...
3 - A credible link to that would be worth considering, and that rumors come from April, IIRC.
4 - That is something you just don't know, you are guessing, as always
5 and Last - By performance figures known, HD4850 is giving as much performance as an 8800GT, 4GHZ 12MB cache Quad-Core does the 15k magic number. I will search the ORB to show you that

Stay tuned.
And 3D Mark 06 proves what? Exactly nothing. I can't believe people are still looking at 3D Mark 06 scores and judging performance based on them. It's pure ignorance.

AMD's slides show that the HD 4850 is 30-50% faster than the 8800GT, and I believe that will prove true on launch day.

G92b is nothing but a 55nm shrink of G92, and 55nm provides no increase in transistor performance over 65nm. The only thing G92b will bring is lower power consumption and cheaper manufacturing costs. It will not help fight against RV770 performance wise.

The HD 4850 is ready for pre order @ $199, so I would not be surprised if you will be able to get it cheaper than that very soon. I would expect HD 4850 to be competitive with the 8800GT/9800GT in pricing before long, and there will be no competition in performance between the two. nVidia could lower 9800GTX to $199, but then they will make zero profit.