Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
After reading several of the reviews, it seems like 4890CF or 275SLI are better deals then the 5870, sometimes rather easily in terms of price/performance. Looks like the 5850 is the part that should help shake things up, the only thing the 5870 seems to be in a good position to do is put pricing pressure on the 295(not necessarily a bad thing, just very far removed from the hyper competitive landscape we have come to expect lately). Waiting to see some 5850 numbers and see how that stacks up to 260SLI solutions, I'm thinking it should come out a bit ahead in the value equation, curious to see if it is by a large enough margin to put pricing pressure on that segment.
I am very impressed that ATi finally fixed the hideously ugly AF they have had for so long, some of the tests indicate that it may even be able to give the NV2x cores a run for their money in terms of quality. That to me is a FAR larger improvement then Eyefinity.
I think on realistic terms, we aren't going to see great values on this generation for quite a while. I would imagine that nV will be a decent amount faster with their high end part, and they will take full advantage of that and price it accordingly(I don't see them putting price pressure on ATi until they start losing a reasonable amount of marketshare which the 48xx line failed to do while being a much better relative value). Not a major issue for me, no game I'm playing currently comes close to pushing my current hardware, so until I do a full overhaul I'll be content and buy whatever is in the sweet spot for price performance when the time comes(probably Q1 ish).