Quote Originally Posted by Xoulz View Post
How can a 60% gain be a fail..?

Specially when the 4800 series is roughly 1 year old. When have you've ever been able to leap through such power over a 17 month period?
its chip size is bigger than the r770, and its on a smaller process, even if its the same exact thing just scaled it should still be 80-120% faster due to how much stuff they can pack into that 300mm2+ chip.

this site has some very basic comparison info for the the 3870 to 4870 jump (just check out the table at the bottom)
http://www.cdrinfo.com/sections/news...x?NewsId=23573
and i like it cause it shows how the size of the 4870 is only 35% bigger, yet offers about double the performance. thats a good jump and hats off to ATI.