http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7052
It seems my theories posted in a few other forums are slowly becoming true and now I must say "i told you so" - that the reason ATI's been delaying and delaying the R600 based line pulling the 'no comment' in interviews, pulling out of a trade-shows last-minute after they'd pre-announced the presence of the R600 there, etc. is because they KNEW internally that their highest-spec incarnation of the R600 built in the lab, the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX (which will never be mass-produced anyway due to being too expensive due to parts like 1gb GDDR4, etc.) was still no match for the 8800GTX - and by a wide margin. I can't say I feel sorry for all the fence-sitters that gave crap to 8800GTX adopters and wagged their fingers that the R600 was coming like the grim reaper for Nvidia.
Even worse news for ATI ofcourse is that Nvidia ALREADY has an "8800 Ultra" offering ready to drop, not to mention the 8900/8950 GT and GTX cards right after if/when they need to.
So, one hell of a combined company, that ATI+AMD, isn't it: ATI, clearly set to be in Nvidia's shadow for at least another 12 months while they kick their engineers in the *** and figure out where to go from here, and AMD, the company in Intel's shadow for the last 9 months and probably the next 12 months due to the amazing price/performance of the Core 2 Conroe/Kentsfield and soon Penryn and various other offerings.
So, it wont be long now for heaven to arrive: Crysis running on SLI'd Nvidia 8xxx cards on top of Core 2 Conroe/Kentsfield/Penryn chips with native 1333FSB chipset (Bearlake or whatever).
Good times!
-Odditory
It seems my theories posted in a few other forums are slowly becoming true and now I must say "i told you so" - that the reason ATI's been delaying and delaying the R600 based line pulling the 'no comment' in interviews, pulling out of a trade-shows last-minute after they'd pre-announced the presence of the R600 there, etc. is because they KNEW internally that their highest-spec incarnation of the R600 built in the lab, the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX (which will never be mass-produced anyway due to being too expensive due to parts like 1gb GDDR4, etc.) was still no match for the 8800GTX - and by a wide margin. I can't say I feel sorry for all the fence-sitters that gave crap to 8800GTX adopters and wagged their fingers that the R600 was coming like the grim reaper for Nvidia.
Even worse news for ATI ofcourse is that Nvidia ALREADY has an "8800 Ultra" offering ready to drop, not to mention the 8900/8950 GT and GTX cards right after if/when they need to.
So, one hell of a combined company, that ATI+AMD, isn't it: ATI, clearly set to be in Nvidia's shadow for at least another 12 months while they kick their engineers in the *** and figure out where to go from here, and AMD, the company in Intel's shadow for the last 9 months and probably the next 12 months due to the amazing price/performance of the Core 2 Conroe/Kentsfield and soon Penryn and various other offerings.
So, it wont be long now for heaven to arrive: Crysis running on SLI'd Nvidia 8xxx cards on top of Core 2 Conroe/Kentsfield/Penryn chips with native 1333FSB chipset (Bearlake or whatever).
Good times!
-Odditory
. Oh well such is life. Who knows maybe they will get it together and come up with something with stanford. 
