Quote Originally Posted by fng77 View Post
I also reacted a little to the relativley low difference between the two. But i think we can se the same phenomenon with the 3850 and 3870. I think that an future driver update could help separate them.
But the key difference here is that the 3870 had only a faster core clock, the 3850 didn't need the extra bandwidth gddr4 brought, while the 4870 on the other hand probably will make use of the extra bandwidth not to mention the core clock difference is quite large this time (125mhz, or in other words, roughly 25% more than the 4850)