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Just a refresher for anyone who isn't up to date.

NVidia is basically several months ahead of ATI right now. Its that simple. But the reason for this is that a while back AMD bought out ATI and reorganized the company a bit. Basically AMD wants to create a unified architecture that is still modularly upgradeable and so they buy out ATI to get their hands on some top-notch experienced design veterans.

Fastforward a bit and they are still hard at work on that project with an undisclosed release date and ATI's head to head with NVidia has deteriorated because they haven't had the time to keep up with things.

Nobody knows exactly how big of a leap this unified architecture would/could be, but just the benefits of bringing the major processing components onto one footprint would be huge in negating both propagation delays and bandwidth issues.

edit: Technically I might need a refresher from this point actually, its been a while since I heard anything new... 



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