Hey Cy, did you read the entire FiringSquad article? it includes 9800Pros (both 128 and 256).
Yeah but with a super fast AMD 3400 base. But yeah, as you say, it's for people looking to upgrade.
Cy, a fuller set of benchmarks will come closer to launch. Besides which, these aren't of much use except to show that Ati > nVidia in HL2's case. Which we all knew. As Gabe said, they're not a great indication of actual HL2 gameplay.