Quote Originally Posted by zerazax View Post
Yeah preliminary crossfire results of the 4850 are showing that some games scale at 90% even when CF is working. And supposedly the RV770 architecture has many improvements in how the chip communication is designed. Looked almost like a dual core or quad core CPU in layout...
It seems that perhaps AMD's influence on chip design is paying off. I'm curious to see the actual architecture the new R7xx..!

Anand Shimpi has hinted that ATI's core is quite impressive/interesting, even though his hands are tied by the NDA, it seemed as if he really wants to discuss what ATI/AMD have done.

So depending on how far ATI/AMD is thinking ahead about scalability, I really do see the 4870 is a premier Card. At least for the majority of gamers that I know of. Most if not all gamers are using 21" & 24" monitors, resolutions beyond 1920 x 1200 really are meaningless to most. So I think ATI is going in the right direction.

A 1gig 4870 for $350 sounds about right for 80% of the people I know!