Quote Originally Posted by Extelleron View Post
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.
I would never take a tone that pessismistic against an Nvidia fan, because there are rumours out there that the 4870 might end up being $349 due to GDDR5 cost.

In addiiton, the slides show 20-40% and you need to half those to get the unbiased marks, so 10-20% at max.

The GTX 260 is cause for worry for ATI, as well as a reasonably priced 9900GTX in July.

ATI, by no means, has it easy, but neither does Nvidia. I just go around and dispell the myths until the reviews come out

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