GTX295 Quad SLI vs HD4870x2 Quad Xfire

[Goldkills]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-quad -sli-gaming-test/1 (http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-quad-sli-gaming-test/1)
it seems that AMD/ATI has been knocked off the GPU throne in almost every game tested. if you got 1k$ to blow on video cards lol get this. maybe AMD/ATI can make up some ground a little later with droping the price of the 4870x2 or coming out with the 5k line of cards also fix your drivers ATI. maybe AMD can also get back some lost ground with the new CPUs that will be coming out very soon.

[dethklok]

i dont think ati have lost the throne not yet tho
when they release 4900 series then we can talk about
295 is just brand new card that ati have the 4870x2 end of july?

[Goldkills]

that ati have the 4870x2 end of july?
what?

[knowitall]

when they release 4900 series then we can talk about

What makes you so sure they're going to release a 49XX? They haven't released a 9XX since the 2000 series.

[Goldkills]

the next thing ATI will do is do the "unlock" of the HD4870x2 and put the price back up to the 500-450$ range then they will put out the 5000 line of cards with the 40nm build

[dethklok]

just think, directx 11 is coming on february

<div class="quote">The ATI HD 49×0 series cards are on the horizon! but the bad news is ATi will be releasing these cardsfor compatibility of the directx 11 engine. The release date is set for the 4th quarter of 2009 so there is atleast 10 month wait untill the next major release.
Nvidia will be releasing their 295 GTX graphics card which include two 260 GTX together, so you could say the 49xx series graphics cards will be battling against nvidias release. ATI will also not be using GDDR 4 due to the price of the memory and how similar it performs to GDDR5 anyway.