Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
There are however some things that people should be aware of (and no, this isn't anti-ATI...I am just stating facts):

- The possibility of seeing pre-overclocked 1Ghz HD 5870 cards at or near the launch of NVIDIA's cards is next to nill. Every board partner I have spoken to has been having issues binning sufficient quantities of chips that will clock to 1Ghz with a reasonable amount of voltage. Hence why cards like the MSI Lightning and ASUS Matrix are clocked quite a bit below 1Ghz. Gigabyte might do it with their SoC but I have been hearing 900 - 925Mhz lately.
Thats not a fact,thats a rumour for now ;-)
- The HD 5970 @ $700 is next to non-existent. This means NVIDIA can literally price the GTX 480 (depending on performance) close to the HD 5970 and still have the cards sell extremely well.
That one i dont get,for one i live in a pretty small and poor country,i can order HD5970 now and have it shipped in 24hrs.Its been like this for months now,the cards are very high end, so there arent alot of them,but not because of lack of them, but retaileres dont wanna stock much of them,cos they sell tiny amount of them,and every price fluctuation can cost them more then they make on them.

So two opinions, not a straight 100% facts.
And i bet nvidia will price GTX480 close to HD5970,but the reason is they have small amount of cards too(and definetely MUCH less then 5970 shipped so far.Besides nvidia owners tend to be very loyal.)

Those are just the facts. IMO, ATI's HD 5870 2GB will be a great contender but we all know that since it bundles several expensive DisplayPort dongles, it will be priced excessively high.
This bit seems skewed too, there will be many flavours of 5870 2GB,not just eyefinity edition.And using word "excessively",so what ,nvidias 470 and 480 wont be priced "excessively" too if they offer comparable performance ?.
There gonna be and are factory overclocked 5870s,not only 1ghz.
One example of such incoming card is asus matrix 2gb.
And yea, pretty much all of this incoming lot of cards are gonna be expensive.Fermis,2gb atis,overclocked 2gb atis and so on.
And the main reason for this seems to be lack of performance and/or availability on a 6 month late nvidia product.
No tough competition=High prices.