Quote Originally Posted by ceevee View Post
However I do not understand people saying it has the performance crown when it clearly does not, not to mention you are saying this about a card that may not even be released for 2 MONTHS.
It certainly has the performance/$ crown. I don't see anyone saying that it has the absolute performance crown. Do you?

And you started this ride on the speculation train about a card that isn't released yet when you said:
Actually last I checked 2x GTX280 in SLI pretty much owns 2x 4870 in crossfire and will own 4870x2, so where do you get:
Do you actually know how it will perform any better then the rest of us? My guess is...no.

Anyway here is GTX280 in tri-SLI so you can see that it handily beats your x12000 score from 2xHD4870x2:
And what about at stock clocks?