R680: The new ultimate graphics card

[Sqrl]

antonichen said:

Sqrl said:

I am currently expecting this to debut at around $700-800 (hoping to be pleasantly surprised otherwise) and by the time it drops into a reasonable price nVidia will likely have the 9k series launching.

 

They already have....

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/05/exclusive_nvidia_geforce_9800gx2

 

 The first pictures of the thing showing up is hardly it having launched, but it definitely seems like ATI/AMD will either have to introduce the thing below the price they would like to or they very likely won't be competitive...I just can't imagine that they were planning to release their card at a price that would compete with this thing at $450 at launch.