On another note- quite a few of the models come bundled with Dirt 2 or have coupons for it. Must be some good business for that title as well.

Just out of interest, I did a quick Google to see how many graphics cards were sold per year. It looks like it's somewhere around 80 million, given 20 million per quarter in that report. They're obviously not all going to be high end ones, but I'd be fairly surprised if the figures didn't break down in a similar manner to the Valve hardware survey- let's face it, it's not businesses that are buying them for running Office.

AMD will also ship 53xx, 54xx and 56xx graphics cards in the next few weeks, and the 800-series chipsets' IGP is confirmed to be DX11. So they will have a complete DX11 lineup this quarter or early next.

Nvidia will launch their high-end card (should retail for much more than the 5870 given its 60% bigger die size) in late March by all indications. That's one chip. Derivative parts will be like 4-6 months after that, and if they screw it up like they did with GT200's derivatives then it could be 1 and a half years after (GT200 -> GT215/6/8 was 18 months delay because 65nm GT200 never had derivatives and GT212 was cancelled) and still not complete (still selling G92s in the $100 - $150 range).

They seriously need better organisation; we need Nvidia to bring down 5xxx prices to RRP or below.

I hope it's not going to be the reverse of a few years ago, where nVidia pretty much had the market to themselves, and it stagnated until the 8800GT's got released. It's far better for everyone when the two are constantly vying for business.