Conclusions
It's been a long time since a Radeon was the graphics card of choice at the all-important $199 price point, but the HD 4850 looks like it might have the title locked up. The current GeForce 9800 GTX is simply no match for AMD's latest mid-range offering, and Nvidia's surprise, the GeForce 9800 GTX+, has quite a bit of ground to make up if it hopes to be competitive. We'll have a full work-up of the GTX+ soon, of course, but the cards only just arrived this morning.

While it would be hasty to draw too many conclusions before we have a better grasp of the GeForce 9800 GTX+'s performance, and before AMD fully reveals its Radeon HD 4000 series, one thing is certain: the graphics war looks more competitive now than it's been in a very long time. That's ultimately a good thing for consumers, especially since AMD looks keen to take the fight aggressively to mid-range products that most consumers can afford.