Noticed something interesting. Looking at the reviews posted, the most positive reviews for the GTX 4xx's were the ones that didn't review power consumption and noise. The ones that did, were far more muted in conclusion

Quote Originally Posted by xdan View Post
The difference betwen 5870 and Gtx 480 is 20-30%, and in some situation GTX 480 reach 5970.
Outside of synthetics and a few games where either ATI isn't well optimized or SLI/CF doesn't scale well, the 480 never really reaches the 5970 at all.

And 20-30%? Where? HWC and AT all gave the 480 roughly a 13% average on performance over the 5870. One of the users on this forum collected the data from 8 different reviews and showed 8% with no AA, and 15% with AA at 1920 x 1200. All the reviews acknowledged that the gap between 5870 and 480 shrinks at 2560 x 1600.

Don't make up 20-30% here, that's not even close to being true