Originally posted by: yacoub
I heard they are coming out with a 9700GTO to spite ATi's 9700Pro heyday. It's going to be a champion like the 9700Pro was for ATi. It'll have 1GB of GDDR4 at 2.0GHz, 1024-bit bus, and 512 TMUs and stream processors. It's on a 45nm die. Release date is slated for September at an MSRP of $750. You are welcome.
The old numbers are all back again, once the Radeon 9800, then the GeForce 9800. ATi currently has the 2900, soon or later they will reach the infamous 5800 which will be a terribly year for them, Shader Model 9.0, DX20 only on Windows OSX and not even able to outperforms the GeForce X800 series, someday the 4 digit numbers for nVidia will be over and will have to do something. Even worse for ATi, after the 5800 they will release the 8500 again. 0_o