I read Charlie's article earlier with some scepticism.

While I doubted performance would be so low in comparison to the AMD 5870, one thing really bothers me.

nVidia's most pressing task must be to halt sales of AMD cards until they are ready to ship their own.

JHH was doing exactly that recently when he was talking about the lack of DirectX11 titles currently out.

However, if they really wanted to halt sales I do believe they would have leaked more than a few benchmarks by now. The only two comparisons I have seen so far are meaningless.