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Editorial Power and Innovation to Drive High-End GPUs in 2009

wow, ati's got nothing to go against nvidia's huge q4 line up.. they are gonna get owned if they dont come up with something amazing in q1!
 
wow, ati's got nothing to go against nvidia's huge q4 line up.. they are gonna get owned if they dont come up with something amazing in q1!

5870x2 will be a 4gpu card (2x2), truly a monster. I seriously doubt if nvidia can compete it with an 1 gpu card.
 
5870x2 will be a 4gpu card (2x2), truly a monster. I seriously doubt if nvidia can compete with it with an 1 gpu card.

you think they would call it a 5870 X4.
 
5870x2 will be a 4gpu card (2x2), truly a monster. I seriously doubt if nvidia can compete it with an 1 gpu card.

who's to say that nvidia cant make a 280x4 and own the 5870x2? remember, nvidia is a bigger company that can sandbag really quickly.
 
who's to say that nvidia cant make a 280x4 and own the 5870x2? remember, nvidia is a bigger company that can sandbag really quickly.

Nvidia is following the 1 big gpu scheme, the g200b gx2 is already a difficult birth.
 
I'm afraid nVidia's naming scheme has just managed to cause an aneurysm. I was completely lost 3 times over reading those names and I've always been proud of how I could follow that stuff. Ah well back to studying card line-ups for me.

I couldnt agree more!
 
both are going to 40nm process which is awesome. I really hope AMD keeps their prices low with the change and Nvidia gets prices in the reasonable category.
 
who's to say that nvidia cant make a 280x4 and own the 5870x2? remember, nvidia is a bigger company that can sandbag really quickly.

sandbag means to go reallly slowly intentionally, like adding wieght (sandbags) to a racecar
 
Thats very informative. I should have been patient and saved my 500 USD for Q4,1,2
 
Holy crap, DX11 is already rolling in at Q1? God help us all.
 
sandbag means to go reallly slowly intentionally, like adding wieght (sandbags) to a racecar

I think he meant snowball... "... can snowball really quickly!"

For me, I want lower power consumption at the same speed as a 4870 or faster. Obviously a better performing card would be better and I can only assume that the 40nm die shrink will increase performance along with the other enhancements, but they really need to do something about the consumption.

I'll pick up a 1GB 5850 for sure, but it all comes down to the consumption really.
 
any information about gtx 270 and gtx290
 
they are to my knowledge die shrinks of the existing GTX 2XX's
 
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