Quote Originally Posted by Sam_oslo View Post
The age av $499 high-end GPU started already last year, because we had a historical competition, and ATi had finally manged to beat the nVidia-performance. But nVidia chose to "jump over" the GPU who should compete with 5-series, and then ..... you look at the 4870x2 vs 5970 launch-prices and you tell me what append?.

I hope ATI and Nividia has not agreed on a "jump-over" game, because that's the only game that can bring back the $600-GPU from the death.

death of $600 video card? maybe by $1.
MSRP of 5970 is $599.

Lack of competition and availability:
newegg avg price $700.

Only $830 8800 ULTRA was more.
Even dual G200, GTX295 MSRP was **only** $499 (IMHO nVidia partners complained about losing A LOT of money on each one compared to GTX280/275/260).