[citation][nom]dalta centauri[/nom]So Nvidia is on the top of the hill for now, that's great. Nvidia and AMD have fought to be the 'king' for a while now, slowly beating the competition until their the only ones left (Consumer sell point, I'm sure there's Companies that sell GPU's that I haven't heard of though.)Nvidia had a time when they kept reusing the same architecture, and it brought them down; now it happens to be AMD's turn, but these are bringing the price down for the 5800+ series.Really it's nothing surprising, I'm sure in 1-2 years AMD will come out with something that topples Nvidia's line up, and then Nvidia does the same. This is competition after all, we'll see what happens.[/citation]
Dude, 69xx series features a different architecture than 68xx and all previous ATI cards. I am disappointed by the performance gain over previous gen, but considering the failure of 32nm process and redesigning the GPU for 40nm process, they did sacrifice few things, one major being chopping of the cores. So, I still think it is a decent product, but it is the best available for its price. I say best for its price because (speculation) GTX 570 is the same architecture as GTX 4xx series, and probably all the major optimizations through drivers have been achieved. Radeon 69xx is a new architecture and I presume to see some good 10-20% gains through driver releases.