The Zone

NVIDIA and AMD-ATI square off again for the single GPU graphic card throne with their respective new cards. Off in the green NVIDIA corner we've got the new GTX 280 and GTX 260 which are essentially the 10th gen in the GeForce series. From AMD-ATI, we've got the new HD 4870 series. Obviously AMD-ATI will not be able to compete in terms of pure GPU muscle, but instead tries to go for the higher end mid-range gaming crowd. As the HD 4850 is definitely not powered enough to go toe to toe with the GTX 260 and the GTX 280 in a class of its own, it looks to be a direct head to head battle between the HD 4870 and the GTX 260. Which one will be on top? Your guess is as good as mine, but we'll update you with hands-ons with each of the cards as they roll in. Later folks.