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Originally Posted by
Sir Shfvingle 
March 9 will be 2 months since 7970 was released, but since cards are rarely available right after release, I hardly count most of January. 2 months at the most. Not that this matters, but AMD hasn't had THAT big of a lead... Most of their 7xxx series isn't out yet either.
Jan 9 release:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5319/
Whoops - heh - 2 months 2 weeks later by March 23rd. (Thanks for the correction).
Kudos to AMD for the jump on Nvidia without competition for that long. Even if the software (drivers) were premature to their hardware launch date. A lot of money AMD took off the table from Nvidia with consumers who couldn't wait, it's going to surmount to nice gains for end Q1 this year.
Now if we can get Nvidia to finally release we can start the actual competition for pricing and performance. One of the effects we're seeing with current AMD pricing is exactly what will happen if either Nvidia or AMD closes it's GPU department and we're left with only one monopoly. It's the 'Yin Yang' consumers need when two compete with each other, consumers have the upper hand and benefit most rather than have to deal with what we're handed with no other option.
