ATI's card upgraded before its launch

ATI's upper-end X1800XT card has acquired a significant momentum without even being available on the market. ATI obviously has great ambitions for this graphic card. The chip manufacturor has indeed announced that the officially supported frequency would be upgraded: from 650 MHz to 624 MHz for the VPU, and from 750 MHz to 775 MHz for the RAM.
Not a big deal, one could say, but one thing is sure: ATI wishes as much as possible to match or overtake the NVidia Geforce 7800 GTX.
We can only wait for ATI, who was driven out of the G5 PCI Express market, to react and put forward its new products for Mac.