CPUs:

Highlights:

- AMD will have an entirely DDR3-supporting lineup (Socket AM3, which is backwards comaptible with AM2+) and a 200MHz clockspeed bump on the high-end allowing it to beat the Q9550 by my estimates.

- 45W quad-cores FTW!

- Those Callisto dual-cores are quad-cores with two cores disabled. Hence the higher TDP and insane L3 cache. The Regor dual-cores are real dual-cores. Also, since you can unlock a Phenom II X3 to an X4 with a BIOS hack...

GPUs:

Highlights:

- The RV740 will perform between the current HD4830 and HD4850, for under $100. The RV790 will be under $200, probably as low as $180 juding by the recent HD4870 pricecut to $145 and the HD4850 to $125.

- Nvidia is doomed. They're launching G92 rebrands to counter (a chip which first launched in 2006 as G80), but RV740 will match them for a much cheaper price and RV790 should put parity with GT200 on the high-end but about $200 cheaper...

- RV790 is 55nm due to leakage issues on the 40nm process. These will likely be resolved before the next round of high-end chips in Q4.

Speaking about AMD and ATI (albeit slightly off-topic), are they working on/are they releasing complete system-on-a-chip amd/ati solutions yet?

I'm pretty sure there will also be a HD4770 (@700mhz) that performs on par with the HD4850 and will replace it asap for $119. It's so much cheaper to manufacture so it's a given.

Those 4870 & 4850 pricecuts are insane by the way. There's no way Nvidia can counter those without severe losses. Selling 576mm2 chips for ~$150 to compete with the 4870 would be suicide.

Yeah, but they got massively delayed. It'll be 2011, on 32nm, with a new CPU architecture. But they'll be low-end parts.

Intel will beat them (Q1 2010 is their timeframe) but it will have sucky G45 integrated graphics that AMD and Nvidia already overpower with the 780G and 9400M today.

Wow, Nvidia really is getting it handed to them by ATI at the moment, they need to get out to get something to compete with that out on the market, and fast!

Yes! Rebrands!

The new GTS250 is a rebrand of the 9800GTX+, which is a die shrink of the 9800GTX, which is a rebrand of the 8800GTS 512MB, which is a die shrink of the 8800GTX. So the core is almost exactly the same as a 2006 part.

They're going to follow with a whole bunch of rebrands for everything that isn't already GTsomething. And none of the stuff will be the new GT200 core; all of it will be G80 die shrinks.

To which ATI has responded with pricecuts and the new cards coming early april. Nvidia needs to fight that

And they need some serious rebranding done, if they want to compete with that. Unless of course, rebrands just isn't going to cut it

I am lad AMD/ATI are seemingly doing okay with some good chip releases. I always preferred these guys to Intel/Nivida.