Wow, being a bit of an NVidiot myself, I actually thought that the R600 would beat the NVidia 8000 series by a large margin because then I could get an even better next generation GeForce(of course that requires some belief that NVidia could beat that new "beast").
But, apparently, according to Daily Tech the new "beast" from AMD is so tame, it can't even compete with an overclocked 8800GTX and the topmodel is so expensive due to the DDR4 memory that some manufacturers don't even plan a card based on it.