What I want to know is what they mean by "released, announced, etc." versus "available". When these cards are "released", will I be able to buy one that week?

After buying four video cards over the course of two years (6800agp > 6800gt pcie > 7600gt > 7900gs - all small moves and for different reasons), I haven't bought one in over a year now. It's nice to be off the treadmill.

AMD is getting their shit together. This news along with their B3 CPU news today is great to hear. They are shipping B3 server CPU samples to clients as we speak and their CrossfireX technology doesn't suck at all according to the preliminary benchies. Also the F@H GPU client is due out at the end of the month after the Cat 8.3 driver release. This year will be a good year to go AMD.

Good news, but technology is not everything . having support from game developers is worth more. just ask Nvidia :))(they have bought all the biggest studios)

Lol, sif, DDR5 is 1100 Mhz. More like 2200 mhz DDR5-4400 effective.

hope its able to achieve more than 10-20fps in a almost half year old game like crysis. LOL!

I think AMD have got a couple of years of just waiting for process shrinks to add more of the same old shader units to their graphics cards and up the speeds now. We're seeing this now with the shorter intervals between releases (HD 2xxx -> HD 3xxx -> HD 4xxx).

I'm sure each shader unit is getting to the stage of being extremely capable on its own (for GPGPU stuff - physics, F@H, etc) so when they can add more units they get better performance.

I wonder when we will start seeing derivatives of this shader core in Fusion. Not anytime soon I guess, although I bet the shader core engineers have been working on it for a while.

i'm excited, get rid of my dam 2900xt, i'll sell it for 160 bucks if anybody wants it.

the questions is can it stand up against nvidia's line