actually, in the upcoming cards both nvidia and ati are both extremely fast at dx9 stuff. the problem with nvidia's 6800 ultra (etc) is that the performance is degraded more as you turn on antialiasing and anistropic filtering, and since many reviews focus much of their attention on just that then you'll often see ati winning by "a lot". But on the other hand, nvidia has ps3.0 support (might actually be useful in a few months, time will tell), and then there's the improved video capabilities which might attract some buyers from the vid editing industry (and hobbyists too)

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