The problem is that no-one knows the level / section bench was done on, on some levels GTX295 paired with ì7 965 Extreme stays still under 30 FPS, on some, obviously as your post shows, it's well over 30FPS with mere Core2 Duo
Nehalem memory controller problems
... well, unsaid issue that intel want to comply with JEDEC specs of DDR3 while various memory manufacturers had different vision of what to sell as triple-channel sets. Old ddr3 chips that works out at ddr2 OC voltages like 2.1-2.2V came out as an issue only 5-6 month behind Nehalem launch. Ntm, presales of these triple channel sets and cleaning up storages of old chips. So i'd bet that's the reason for various sites had such low benches even with high end graphic. And usually of nobody these benchers even compares it w/ older CPU generation. At least not that in detail even if they find some time to spare for it.
I'm sorry, but the way i see it, ATI is starting Nvidia's blood sucking strategies and please don't tell me it's just business, cause it's not!
Business is when you launch the 4850 at 150euros and you should do the same for the 5850!
Unfortunately, you're views of doing business are somewhat different from top notch GPU manufacturers.
In the time of rv770 they need some chip to gain back collapsed market share that didn't brought up to reasonable levels with rv670 renewal strategy. So in June 2008 they came back to eat up the rest of 25% of GPU market cake .... and they done even more. Now today when they dominate in mainstream segment just like nVidia did w/ 7600gt/7900gs series they done with hd4850/4870/(hd4770 almost). And then they decide it's time to make some HUUUGE profits (even with hd4770 series according to that OEM cheat sheet
) on 40nm. And they even have explanation for it ... poor yields on 40nm (ooh how yes no) as they had for their firs 40nm child and deliberately capping down that small chip to measly 850MHz so they won't make same mistake as in time of rv350 (more popularly know 9600xt) which OCed like hell and in fact mess up even with their hot priced 9800pro and later 9800xt series
If rv740 could make to 1000MHz+ @50-60W nobody would even think about hd4890 or now JuniperXT
and they'd have much of marketing explanation for price oriented customers why is DX11 so much better than good old DX10.1
The big question is - was Fuad right after all, and the card is 60% faster than last gen? When compared to X2/GTX295, not single chip models like everyone assumed?
It's a
hype ... They ned to sell that babies as a fastest cars before everybody figure out what they paid for.
And maybe Crysis benchmark get some patch optimized for AMD PII architechture or pre-results are fake as usual
