I can all but guarantee this is the thinking and product positioning:This card would be approx equal or very very very slightly faster than a 1536sp card clocked at 925/5000, which is more or less what AMD is limited to if they choose to do such a product under 150w (Such a spec would be limited to something like 1050-1075/5800 within 150w, similar absolute performance as this product).If that is what AMD does, they are set to compete at a similar price tag but higher power consumption.If AMD takes the over 150w route, and hence goes for something like up to 1100/6000, nvidia can come back with a revised 670, which has slightly more ipc, clocked to beat it while at a similar price tag. Again probably higher power consumption on the geforce part (conceivably ~200w vs <200w) but nobody will care because the pci-e spec will be similar.Hence, this is the bait. AMD now has to make a choice to compete with lower power consumption and similar absolute performance (and hence lower margin) to 760 or to lower the performance difference between 8800 products and still get beaten by 760ti, causing the same likely competition.My guess is we end up with 1100/5000 (150w), 1100/6000 (188w), and 1100/7000 (225w) 1280, 1536, and 1792sp parts that perform just slightly lower over-all than the Geforce competition (760 ~ 1344sp, 760ti ~ 1568sp, 770 ~ 1792sp but need less bw so similar bw adds more performance) but are slightly cheaper and spaced between them.

Given the reference clocks of 980Mhz/Boost of 1033Mhz that's like what most generic GTX660Ti factory OC looked like. Given the lower Cuda and TPU and that 256-Bit might help like 5-8% at 1920x (pretty much its’ perceived resolution), plus Boost 2.0 enabling more sustained clocks perhaps where most of any true advance will come from over most GTX660Ti that right today hold to around $275. As customary any real proliferation of reference cards at MSRP will be nil, most everything will be customs and entail the customary 10-15% minimum charge, but those will perform similar/best their 660Ti counterparts at a lower price.



Nvidia again sets an aggressive MSRP, what we will see is a lesser functional card, with 256-bit and better use of boost clocks for about what nicer GTX660Ti perform today. Then top-shelf customs could get you right up on a 670, so that bodes well. For the near term I might say a decent GTX670 for $330 is the better buy. What's interesting is all this would appear to leave a substantial void between this new GTX760 and the 770, so they're certainly not going to EoL the GTX670, just remain firm which should keep volumes from being sucked up. Right today Egg has a gaggle of nice 670's (22 Sku's), about 7 get down to $330-350 –AR. If fence sitting I'd fall to a 670 sooner than later. On the GTX 660Ti Egg has 21 Sku's and pricing runs from $260-310 working rebates, and I don't know if that range will witness much realignment.



I can't remember a time when there's been this much overlap, Sku's, and no clear defined price points, it all feels to meld into one huge blob, and that's not even considering AMD.