Yeah it does dale....I don't know...it seems like Doom3 is really a showcase for graphics to come and when it first came out was showing what graphics can be...don't know how they did it, but it's like the specifically went way out of their way to make it almost not playable or worth playing on an ATI card...I mean it's like nvidia and ID made a pact with each other or something it's weird, because my 6600GT can do the same if not better in some areas than beedubs X800Pro, far cry we're pretty close to the same and I haven't gotten to try HL2 yet, but in that game I'm pretty darn sure his will whoop mine.
It's awesome that ATI is putting out that 24 pipeline card, because hopefully that just means Nvidia will have the 7xxx series (assuming they go that way) with 24 pipelines also and god knows what else. I have read though (and if you look at their latest 75.xx forceware beta drivers) that the NV47 and NV50 have been scrapped, and infact the codename NV has been completely dropped and will be using G70...can't wait to see what that produces.