Quote Originally Posted by SNiiPE_DoGG View Post
... its not about "inferior" architecture. Its about how the architecture behaves at higher clock speeds.

you keep spewing crap about how it reaches higher frequencies but the fact of the matter is that the r700 architecture has 800 SPs in a unified design whereas Nvidia does this vastly differently. The increase of 30 mhz on the r700 architecture has much greater effect than a 30 mhz increase on the GT200 architecture. I don't have numbers on this but I think everyone who has used both cards can say that this is essentially true.
If you overclock the GTX 260 core alone, then you have a point..

As you know, the shader processors and the core itself don't run at the same speed, so overclocking the core alone while leaving the shaders won't result in the best performance gains.

Overclocking both the shaders and the core though, will see the same kind of progression you see on the R700.

On my own card, I overclocked the core, the shaders and the memory.