Seems ATi is releasing an updated 2xxx-series card to compete with nVidia's G9x offering in November. They're moving to 65nm so it looks like they've finally realised that having a furnace for a graphics card is pretty impractical. It'll be interesting to see if this card can unlock the latent performance potential of ATi's 2xxx-series architecture.

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