ATI's R600 has more than 500 million transistors

It should be less power consumption and cheaper electric bill

Guess I'm scared to go on desktop from now on

i heard the r600 had something like a 250W power consumption. Not that its much better anyways lol...

The Nvidia G80 is supposed to be Nvidia's DX10 card. It has over 300W (320-350?) power consumption and the cooling will either be water or a massive air cooling.

Bottomline? I'd say stay away from DX10 cards (and Vista) for 1/2-1 year until they both become stable and reasonable in every way possible (power consumption, security, price, performance).

Security?

And also, NV G80 has 700 million transistors. http://vr-zone.com/?i=4007

According to GPU Review, an 8800 will be out next month.