That OC'd GTX had a 650MHz core clock and a 1GHz memory clock, as opposed to the stock GTX's 575MHz core clock and 900MHz memory clock. That makes a lot of difference IMO. Also, if they wanted to test a card that everyone out there could\would buy (i.e. a cheaper third-party manufactured card rather than from the parent company), they should've clocked the XFX card down to stock speeds to make it a fair test. Even with that, I think there are still some driver issues remaining to be fixed. But to add to that, I expected AMD's new card to at least be on a competitive edge with even an OC'd 8800GTX, not play catch up or anything. Let's see what the mid-range brings with it now...

I can't believe anyone could form an opinion from a HardOCP review. That site is biases and inept. The x2900xt is okay in price to performance, and you would probably buy the same PSU for a 8800gts/gtx system. I agree AMD sould have done a little better and have a XTX along with the low end cards (like Henri Richard said they would.)