Quote Originally Posted by Helloworld_98 View Post
I doubt it will be competitive with the 5970, those specs would put it at about GTX 295 performance on release unless they're still having performance issues.
The shader differences is huge. At 1700, those shaders are more than 33% faster, with the extra addition in shader power, that should mean 40% more performance than a gtx 295. That should make it competitive with the 5970. If it's 10 percent slower than this figure, it is still competitive with the 5970.

I expect more linear scaling from NV architecture, because it is a new architecture and I don't think NV would fool around when r7xx caught them off guard.

1700mhz is pretty fast for shaders those, I am not sure NV clocked it that fast.