R700 or Nvidia 9800?

Just for fun! I say R700XT

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I'm very curious to see what ATI comes up with in the next few months. That being said, I'm leaning heavily toward the 98 hundo.

Who knows, maybe ATI can pull another 9-series thing out of their hat and nVidia will launch another FX series, maybe the opposite will happen, you can't really tell yet.

I heard intel is going to leave the "enthusiast" market to ATI/nVidia

i really wanna go with ati on this one. something tells me that they have something up their sleeves. my logic tells me to go with nvidia. who knows though...maybe r700 will spank nvidia.

When do these come out??? I'm hoping something good for January.

I think NVIDIA will win the next round again. But certainly it is anybody's game at this point... What's most interesting to me, is that NV just went to 65nm tech, while ATI skipped ahead to 55nm.. Could that be a great advantage for ATI? Certainly it didn't help the 3870 beat the 8800GT, but if done right next time.....

Or will NV's next products also be 55nm or smaller? Perhaps even 45nm? Huff huff huff huff!!!!

OH LORD! I am getting technically aroused again!! Think books..... magazines..... old cars..... regular season baseball games..... reading...... boring........ Ahhh..... that was a close call. =0

whats going to be new in the 9800 series? 5xxx had dx9, 6xxx had good dx9, 7xxx had hdr, 8xxx had dx10, whats 9xxx going 2 have?

With the way AMD/ATI is going R700 might turn into another mid-range card that performs right below the 3850 and the 9800 would become a 8600GTX!

Are these both going to have cell processing on it. A while back that is what I heard for the R700. Like, they will have multiple versions. The low end will only have a few cores on it and the top end will have up to 16 i think.... I am not sure if this is true or not, but its what I remember hearing a few months back.

For what it's worth. Digitimes says Feb for the Nvidia 9 series high end and June midrange.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20071129PD216.html

I vote to get what your system is made for,

for x38,p35--ati is the way to go for crossfire
680, 780,--nvidia b/c of sli.

I always begin with a mobo that I like, buy the best card out, then upgrade to two of those cards when the price drops later on.

I do bet that Intel is aiming squarely at the high-end.
Intel aint gonna beg nVidia to officially allow SLi on Intel chipsets, so they will be at least faster/better than nVidia just to piss em off and Intel doesnt need nVidia for anything at all.
Next thing is that they DEFINITELY WILL NOT want to be slower than AMD, for obvious reasons.
So Intel will either be "good" or better than both. Prolly not right ahead with their first GPU, but 2-3 years should be enough experience for them.

Read up on the Larabee - mainstream. Too bad, the two giants could loose some weight from sweating a bit.
I'd vote for nV. Genericaly, nV have started the nex-gen and ATi finishes it with an "oh yeah? Well suck on this bohemith energy sucking frame thrower". ATi seems to be playing with impressions, stealing the "nex-gen" ice breaker with the 3870 imo. Frankly, I don't think they have much up thier sleeves...

From where I read, the R700 is supposed to be multichip or multicore.