I believe the 10th of September cannot come soon enough
Would be amazing if the HD4850 replacement dubbed the HD5850 IS indeed a 2 terraflop card...unless nVidia has something truly magnificent up their sleeves ATi are onto a winner.
My prediction for this round is that ATi will have higher performance for Hardware Tessellation , however nVidia will be better at DirectX Compute.
The rest...who knows, but one thing is for certain and that is the reviews will be highly anticipated, praised and disputed.
John