Well i would have liked them to be released early but meh..Now GT200 going to be released first..What a surprise!

But good thing is at least they will be priced below 300 4870 may even be at or below 200! Cool...but i cant help but wonder what nvidia is doing?...Hmm im down to buy from either company!

Its just like w/ G92, nVidia beat ATi to the punch releasing the 8800gt before the 3870. I think many of us suspected that nVidia has been sitting on GT200 for a while.

I'll wait till Octoberish and pick up the card with the best price/performance, by then demand should be down and stock up.

Hope the 48** turns out good, Ive been cheering for ATI for years now. And after the 9800 discrace I really don't want to give Nvidia my buisness.

It'll be a step up from 3870. I doubt it's going to be whole lot faster than 9800gtx.

Where in the world did you get this info from? Please, let me know. What might happen is that we are gonna get RV770PRO with GDDR3 May 31st then the real RV770XT in Late June-July
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7700.html

I'd love the 4870 to be priced that low, BTW, although it makes me suspicious. I remember when everyone saw the price of the HD2900XT, people were like WTF, its specs kill the 8800GTX, why is it so much cheaper??well, now we know, its performance wasnt up to par. It might be the same case this time around.

So wats the msrp of the 9900gtx?

$499

dONT ASk, OH BTW i SAW where you got the article, right here on Toms, duh. These cards look like they'll dissapoint. I was really hoping on the advent of a 1GB framebuffer, a useful one dammit, but I guess we'll still have to wait.

the spec dont seem that bad. 500$ isnt to bad unless its 30-40% faster then the 9800gx2.

you mean it isnt that bad IF its 30-40% faster than the 9800GX2

yes lol.

Could you please point me to one of those GT200s that's available right now?

Until they launch or at least release to reviewers and pre-order, I wouldn't bet on which is first.

if its equivalent to a 3870x2 without the glitches in dx10, then i'd quantify it as the new 8800 gt!

9800 gtx .. everything i've read points to that being a waste of money unless you SLI it?

even then its still a waste. The G92 GTS is much better

I expect the RV770 more than GT200.

Yes, I'll get a 4870x2 in the fall, can't afford one until then. I do wish I'd known back in February. I would have held off on the 3870x2 (that's why I can't afford one in June).

While I hope it gives G200 a run for it's money, I know that AVIVO is better than Pure Cinema and I do more than just play games.

I think 512 megs is a bit low nowadays. Perhaps they should have stuck with GDDR3 and gone 1 gig on the 4850 and 4870 and 2 gigs on the 4870x2?

Heres a guess, the 4800s will come out around the time G200 does. June? Then the X2 comes out, and nVidia has to top it, and theyll have to wait, cause usually nVidia doesnt just jump into a node change, they wait and perfect it, then shrink. Thatll give us one great card from ATI and nVidia , and the X2 will be killer like the G200, and faster until the refresh of the G200. Ive heard the die size is fairly large for the G200, whichll most likely prevent them for a G200X2 til the refresh. So theres my speculations

Nvidia's CEO also doesn't like dual GPU cards. So, I was surprised at the 9800gx2 to begin with. If they come out with a dual GPU card, it should be single PCB, otherwise they're really missing an opportunity to innovate.

ASUS had an interesting part with the 3850x2 and I'd kind of hoped more companies would go that route because there needs to be a 4850x2 too. Why the need? To gain developer acceptance of a future dual core GPU and to get more and better Crossfire support across the board.

Maybe I'm the loner in thinking that $500 to $600 monster GPU's that replace Prescotts as the way to heat your house with a computer are dinosaurs that need to get hit by a big rock out of the blue?

Intel innovated by going back to Pentium 3/M designs for the C2D. AMD innovates for servers with K Whatever a Phenom is (9.5, 10?). ATI innovates with DX10.1 and single PCB dual GPU cards.

I don't see Nvidia innovating all that much except in naming schemes that make very slight variations on existing cards seem like the best new thing.

Makes me want to paraphrase The Hitchhiker's Guide's comment on what happens to the Sirius Cybernetics Marketing Department when the revolution comes. LOL