Well, this generations almost done, time to speculate on the next one!

So yeah, it's so obvious that GT300 have the following...
- 55nm process
- 2 billion transistors on a 600mm^2 die
- 1024-bit bus
- 2 GB GDDR5 RAM
- 500 SPs
- 700 MHz core, 1000 MHz memory (4000 MHz effective), 1600 MHz Shader
- 11" long card that needs two eight-pin PCI-E connectors
- Gotta have a 650 W power supply minimum
- Triple the power of the GTX 280
- Maxes out Crysis settings at 1920x1200, giving you a nice, smooth, 45 FPS average with 30 FPS minimum.

And R800 will have the following...
- 40 nm process
- 1.2 billion transistors on a 333mm^2 die
- 512-bit bus
- 1 GB GDDR5 RAM
- 2000 Shader Cores
- 1 GHz Core clock, 1200 MHz memory (4800 MHz effective)
- 10" card with a single six-pin PCI-E connector
- 500W minimum PSU
- Equivalent to two 4870x2 in CF (with better scaling since it's a single GPU)
- Same as the GT300 in Crysis, but you can also have maxed out AA (which will probably be like 36x) and AF, and STILL get an even smoother 60 FPS average, never going below 40 FPS.

It's all too obvious, they just don't want you to know it yet. ATI forever!

By the way if you need <sarcasm> tags for this, I feel sorry for you.

Too early to speculate, just hope ATi keeps it going for the next generation.

Nice Ovaltine. You also forgot the 2x Xs in the name.

Here's a look into the future

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7946.html

I wish... anyway I don't think this generations done... we still have the nvidia 55 nm refresh of gt 200... and supposedly ATI is making a 45/40 nm refresh of the 4800's in q1 2008.... so I'll look at those before the next generation...

but the next gen by nvidia is claimed to give upto 2 times the performance of the gtx 280... it says in one of the articles on toms

I doubt that will be the case - the 55nm refresh of the GT200 will only be upon us in 2 month's time - that's September.

With Nvidia's well worn track record, cards following this are likely to be a high end GX2 version, and a transition to GDDR5 RAM with a lowering to 256 bit.

Wait for 2009 for anything else. Wait longer for a game that actually is worth playing on it.