I believe they are just implying that the write speed is three times faster than their previous generation drives, not in comparison to the competition.
Speaking of that, it will be interesting to see how these compare in the real world with the Vertex 3. At over 500mb/s on both read and...
I'm also happy to report that the DX10 version of the demo runs silky smooth on my rig:
Xeon 3060 running @ 3Ghz, 2gb of ram, and a 8800GTS 640mb with the 158.42 drivers
I had everything cranked up as high as it would go, and it looked absolutely amazing. No lag whatsoever.
The only...