ATI 2900 XT 1GB DDR4 on sale

Here are some 3DMark benches, (I know, I know), but still ...

HD2900XT 1GB

... let the battle finally begin.

Or is the 8900 lurking in the shadows?

Hopefully this means that the video card scene isn't going to so boring as it has been lately.

Ok, those benches look good enough, though the price is a bit high. Now if only the new motherboards and cpus can come out, I can build a new computer.

Yeah, but synthetics are better than nothing. And at least the card didn't bomb out on the synthetics.

Those are good scores but looking at ORB they are not any better than 2900's with 512mb of ddr3 at similar clocks and overclocked quad cores.

The thing to keep in mind is that with 3dmark06 quad cores bring about an extra 1000 points to the final score and the one in that test is clocked at 4000.
When Dailytech tested the preproduction 1gigddr4 card back in April it didn't do any better than the regular 2900 and I'm sceptical if that has changed. The higher clocks can be achieved without the extra expense.