http://forums.legitreviews.com/about15370.html

Looks like ATI finally widened the bottleneck that held back 3870. If that review is real, of course. Lol@ "Legit Review forum"

Yeah, that site provides two sources for the benchmarks.

I'm not sure what language they're in or how credible they are.

Wowie!! False hope or not, it sure made me happy!

If this review is real, then I know what my next upgrade will be. I might even take two cards for good measure.

I'm liking this, let's hope it's true. Might be the first time in my life to go red.

Even if true, a little dissapointing they don't have any AA in the tests, and conspicuous by it's absence.

If those benchmarks are real, it's such a huge gap that AA won't matter. Run it at 3 times the resolution, and you won't see the jagged edges anyway.

Actually, the question is does it nose dive with AA. That's the big problem with AA on the HD series, you can see it go from competitive with the high end without AA (like the HD2900XT vs GF8800Ultra) to stuggling to keep up with the low end of the enthusiast parts (like the HD2900XT vs GF8800GTS-320).

This is good, but you know that for many people running at 1920x1200 with AA will matter more than 2500x1600 without AA.

Anywhoo, just wish more than high and very high they had VH with no AA and either VH or H with AA, that would've at least given us an idea about what this segment tends to look for, c'mon 1280x1024 with no AA?.

I agree that is an important test. It seems ATI just keeps wishing the old AA method would just go away. This won't happen, however, until NVidia does DX10.1 too (or gets destroyed by Intel )

With that kind of performance, I don't care for aa anymore. The gap is just way too large. It's one gpu core against 2, and look at that bar. What happens when the 4870x2 comes out?

OK, I confess. I didn't look at the benchmarks before posting. WOW! I wish for once the hype could be true! I wasn't planning on getting a new card yet, but if this is true, I might grab one of the lower ones (4850 or equivalent).

Assuming these are legit, the question now becomes:

How will nVidia respond?

I wonder if the GeForce 99xx series will post even bigger numbers.

It'll be difficult, considering how high the bar is set.