I can't say I'm too impressed, but it's certainly a huge leap (performance wise) from what I'm currently using. If the r520 isn't a bit more exiteing, I will miss this generation as well as the last one. I can survive with a 9800 for now atleast 
It doesn't seem like it was that long ago since the that last generation of cards came out, yet it has been a year... odd. Despite the increase in performance, The seemingly apparant lack of difference in features has meant that games look mostly the same on my r3xx card as they do on a r4xx or a G7x, blurring the difference between receant generations. The leap between my GF4 and my 9800 was quite large as it enabled a considerable number of effects that weren't practically possible previously.
It seems that my 9800 can do most of the things a G70 can do, albeit slower and with some increased hassel to the programmer. HDR is, to some extent, an exception to this (Valve will support it on r3/4xx based cards I think), but on the games where it is supported in this generation, it doesn't appear to be all that good, certainly not up to the same standard as UE3 games.
To me, better AA and AF isn't a good enough reason to buy a new graphics card when considering there price. If I can play UE3 games with all or the most important shader effects on, but at 800x600, I will do. Although thats under the presumption that I will be in the same finacial state then as I am now.
It doesn't seem like it was that long ago since the that last generation of cards came out, yet it has been a year... odd. Despite the increase in performance, The seemingly apparant lack of difference in features has meant that games look mostly the same on my r3xx card as they do on a r4xx or a G7x, blurring the difference between receant generations. The leap between my GF4 and my 9800 was quite large as it enabled a considerable number of effects that weren't practically possible previously.
It seems that my 9800 can do most of the things a G70 can do, albeit slower and with some increased hassel to the programmer. HDR is, to some extent, an exception to this (Valve will support it on r3/4xx based cards I think), but on the games where it is supported in this generation, it doesn't appear to be all that good, certainly not up to the same standard as UE3 games.
To me, better AA and AF isn't a good enough reason to buy a new graphics card when considering there price. If I can play UE3 games with all or the most important shader effects on, but at 800x600, I will do. Although thats under the presumption that I will be in the same finacial state then as I am now.
