The high performance video card landscape normally runs on an ever evolving plane, with both NVIDIA and ATI trying to out gun each other every few months. It's a classic battle of one up that came to griding halt on September 22, 2009 (6 months and 4 days for those of you counting) when ATI launched Radeon HD 5870, the first DirectX 11 video card to market. Performance over previous generation cards was fantastic and showed that a powerful graphics card could also use very little power when in an idle state. Another feather in the cap of the Radeon HD 5870 was a new feature called Eyefinity, which has quickly become the best way to enjoy your favorite games!For the last 14 months, the highest performing graphics card you could get from NVIDIA was the GeForce GTX 295 and it's performance was very similar to the much less expensive Radeon 5870. Over the last 6 months it's been slim pickings on GeForce GTX 200 series inventory, so it is with much anticipation that NVIDIA is truly, finally, for real this time, taking the wrapper off their next generation graphics card code named Fermi, the GeForce GTX 480. Yes, we can finally show you the full performance numbers!