ANY DX10 card that costs RM500 and above. X1650 and 7600GT (last-gen) already killed 6800Ultra, most notable X1650.
6800GS is not gonna play Oblivion in crazily nice mode. The new cards will.

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Jul 6 2007, 08:11 PM

Bioshock requirements:
Minimum:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single Core processor
System RAM: 1GB
Video Card: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).

Recommended:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
System RAM: 2GB
Video card:
DX9: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better)
DX10: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better

See 8600 or better? That's rather good proof that DX10 mainstream can run nicely.
DX10 doesn't just make stuff spiffier, it also reduces much dreaded graphics overhead that until now, because of tack-on usage, isn't much help at all.

You obvious underestimate the new cards. They CAN reach performance levels of 7800s. Give and take some driver/DX10 shortcuts, you get there with almost the same performance.

If they pull a f***ing Adobe and enforce use of SSE2/SSSE3 mandatorily/for performance... I'll kill Ken Levine. (Because they're too lazy to code.) Crysis is also *ahem ahem*, whoring Yorkfield. But that's a little more reasonable.



@Gold, My 1.83 Athlon XP is gonna suffer hell if they need SSE2. Virtua Tennis 3 and DiRT already need it, and I do NOT want to see Unreal Engine 3's newer builds and branches require it too.
Altivec FTW.

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Jul 12 2007, 06:26 PM