Quote Originally Posted by zerazax View Post
You also have to look at where the cards are performing relative to one another

If the 6870 is ~5-10% slower than the 5870, how can the 6970 be only 20% faster than the 5870 if there's a 6950 to slot there too. Assuming the 6950 and 6970 have a 20% gap in performance (akin to 5850 and 5870), you'd certainly have to expect the 6950 and 6870 to have a sizeable gap as well. From there one ought to extrapolate where 6950 and 6970's are going to perform
youu got a good point; it wouldn't make any sense to place it so close to 6870