Radeon HD6990/Nvidia GTX 590

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The GTX590 is a Fermi GPGPU(Complete GPU)
The AMD is not, and i Say AMD because ATI is being discontinued this year(2011)
AMD is dropping the ATI brand and just going AMD
Nvidia was the first and still is the only system with a completed GPU, ECC, and complete PhysX+Graphics support. Not to mention Nvidia cards are more consistent than ATI.
ATI's card may pack a bit more "power" but Nvidia's cards are more solid and better designed.

As a whole? We've reached the pre pinnical point of graphics.
Same with RAM being pinical at 8GB(anything more is "future proof")
Same with Intel CPU clockspeeds(no need for anything more than 3.8ghz at all).
The graphics pinnical is almost within reach. Fermi is the GPU to beat. ATI does not have a direct competitor in the same way that AMD does not have a direct competitor to the Core i7.
Closer specs and higher over all frame rates(Nvidia), is better than higher peaks and lower consistancy(ATI)
Every true gaming rig has Nvidia single or SLIed but most gaming rigs with ati need two cards for complete support.

Uh...

No.

While AMD might not yet have a strong competitor to Intel's i7s (which is fine because you only need a quad core for gaming anyway), you're just being foolish in saying that every "true" gaming PC has an NVIDIA card. AMD has plenty of competent contenders for the GPU market.

Pretty much this. As long as Intel continues to be way overpriced, AMD will continue to be strong competition for them.

ADM has no strong grounds in the Processor market anymore. The Intel Core i7 series literally changed the entire game. And now AMD's coperate heads are spinning trying to figure out why a quad core blew away their hexcore.
AMD is the cheapo processor for a reason.
lower power, lower quality, no longer on par with the curve.
Yeaaaaa..... so what if ATI GPUs have higher peeks? Consitancy is far better in the long run.
And needing two cards to have a full GPU span? cmon ATI we know youre better then that...
Or are you?
WHY does ATI STILL not have a complete GPU?
Why do they still not have ECC?
Those are two things ATI is capable of doing, So? Why havent they done it yet?

Actually, AMD's Bulldozers have been in development for several years now. They're due to release in and around June. No specs on them as of yet.

Also, ATi does have a complete GPU. It supports GPGPU and OpenCL. If you're wondering about PhysX? Then you should turn your attention to nVidia. PhysX is a closed proprietary API owned by nVidia. Besides PhysX is garbage anyways. They are just now updating it for multi-core processors... Pathetic.