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We were all pondering who Anand was talking about when He said:

Originally Posted by anand

In fact, one of the companies in today's article is stopping by our labs to show off something special later today. If all goes well we should also have a few guys from Epic over here to benchmark it as well, too bad you won't see the results of that for a little while

In his preview of the radeon 9700:

Originally Posted by anand

When ATI visited us in North Carolina just a couple of weeks ago, they mentioned that they were hoping for over 325MHz core and memory but we will see what happens over this coming month.

Was it Ati that he was talking about in the original quote or am I misreading this? Or was it nvidia with the nv30? hence, this quote:

Originally Posted by anand

Based on the current specs of NV30, believe it or not, it will be faster than the Radeon 9700.

Sounds pretty confident in his statement. Maybe it's more from having benched the card than going from the specs.


Okay maybe my topic isn't really very fitting. Maybe the mystery isn't solved?